Subject: Re: SCSI tape problems
From: Iain Stevenson (iain@IainStevenson.com)
Date: Thu Nov 16 2000 - 02:19:05 MST
Chris,
The drive's made by Cristie and includes a Travan NS20 mechanism. I haven't
set up an /etc/fstab entry or symlinks - I'm specifying /dev/nrst0 or
/dev/st0 directly. I'd really like to know where those Travan options are
in the kernel!
Thanks,
Iain
on 15/11/00 3:19 pm, cdowns at cdowns@skillsoft.com wrote:
> Iain Stevenson wrote:
>
>> 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
>
> what is the actual tape drive ? i compiled in modular support for scsi tape
> devices and then just setup the device in /etc/fstab and created the correct
> symlinks to the raw device. if it is a travan frive i know that there is an
> option
> in the kerel to tell it what kind of travan it is.
>
> chris
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