Re: Tape Drive Recognized, but not recognizing tapes


Subject: Re: Tape Drive Recognized, but not recognizing tapes
From: Paul Schinder (schinder@pobox.com)
Date: Fri Oct 20 2000 - 09:12:04 MDT


At 6:20 PM -0400 10/16/00, Reid Anderson wrote:
>During startup (or by using dmesg) I can see the tape drive being
>recognized during startup, but it doesn't want to recognize that there is
>actually a tape in the drive. dmesg shows the following:
>
>Vendor: HP Model: HP35470A Rev: 1009
>Type: Sequential Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
>.
>.
>.
>Detected scsi tape st0 at scsi1, channel 0, id 3, lun 0
>
>It appears to me that the tape drive is being recognized, but with a Fuji
>DG-90 DDS-1 2/4GB Tape in the drive, I try to mount the tape using the
>default Tape Backup Tool and I get the error message:
>
>KDat: No Tape
> There is no tape in the drive.
>
>I can see clearly that the tape is indeed in the drive and the LED's on
>the front show no sign of error in loading (no blinking or anything other
>than green, just two solid green which blink only during the loading
>process, then turn solid as the tape finishes loading). It is a brand new
>tape (A Fuji DG-90 DDS-1 2/4GB Tape) straight out of the
>packaging. Anyone have any ideas, comments or suggestions???

Have you tried a DDS-2 tape? The HP tape drive we have attached to
our HP-UX machine at work doesn't handle DDS-1 tapes at all.

>
>Thanks,
> Reid Anderson
> resander@cs.hamilton.edu
>
>PS- Please do not use the g3.hamilton.edu address. Please use
>resander@cs.hamilton.edu, or simply reply to the entire list. Thanks!

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Paul Schinder
schinder@pobox.com



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