219787 – udev identify of tape causes unwanted rewind of prepositioned tape

Bug 219787 - udev identify of tape causes unwanted rewind of prepositioned tape

Summary: udev identify of tape causes unwanted rewind of prepositioned tape

Status:	RESOLVED OBSOLETE

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	[OLD] Core system (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High major
Assignee:	udev maintainers

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Reported:	2008-04-30 00:08 UTC by Robin Johnson
Modified:	2013-03-13 22:33 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Description Robin Johnson archtester

2008-04-30 00:08:05 UTC

If I pre-position a backup tape on another system, then connect the tape or drive to the system, udev ends up rewinding the tape:
/lib64/udev/scsi_id --export --whitelisted --fallback-to-sysfs -s /class/scsi_tape/st0l -d /dev/.tmp-9-32

Please make it uses the non-rewinding tape devices for all probing.

Comment 1 Matthias Schwarzott gentoo-dev

2008-11-06 09:34:44 UTC

tape-probing is a complicated topic I have no clue of.
Best is you ask on the hotplug mailinglist.

Comment 2 Matthias Schwarzott gentoo-dev

2009-07-16 08:34:47 UTC

As of udev-123 it uses the bsg driver to access tape drives for scsi_id.
So this bug should be solved.
Can you please verify.