Subject: Re: SCSI tape problems
From: Iain Stevenson (iain@IainStevenson.com)
Date: Wed Nov 15 2000 - 07:52:56 MST
Chris,
I couldn't find anything looking like a drive option to compile in - could
you give me a little more detail on what you did?
Thanks,
Iain
on 13/11/00 11:34 pm, dsbelile at dsbelile@mediaone.net wrote:
> Iain Stevenson wrote:
>
>> Oh boy ....
>>
>> I have a SCSI tape - Travan NS20 based - which I can't get to work properly.
>> It is recognised on boot and flexbackup (a backup script package) says it is
>> writing records to tape although there are device errors in the console
>> window. However, it is not writing to tape correctly. I've tried several
>> backup programs with the same sort of results.
>>
>> Doing an 'mt -f /dev/st0 erase' eventually, after much whirring, produces an
>> i/o error. The drive is correctly terminated with no SCSI ID conflicts
>> (I've checked). I'd really appreciate some suggestions for next steps to a
>> solution.
>>
>> Iain
>
> make sure you actually have support for that device compiled into the kernel.
> i
> had a simialr problem with an HPsurestore 4gig 8mm tape drive a while back.
>
> good luck
>
> chris
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