Am 24.08.2011 14:42, schrieb Vitor Garcia:
> As the device is conected to a sata port, I have tried: 
> 
> dmesg | grep -i sata
> 
> ata1: SATA link down (SStatus 1 SControl 310)
> ata1: limiting SATA link speed to 1.5 Gbps
> (The 2 above lines repeats hundreds of times)
> 
> 
> But I'm not sure it has any connection to the tape drive.
> 
> 
> Any ideas?

I haven't seen SATA tapes so far, but I guess it should behave the same
as SCSI (as in: detect the drive, autoload the 'st' module). Can you
show a bigger excerpt from dmesg from the area around the ata1 stuff above?

Does anything change if you actually insert a tape?

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