Hi All Thanks to Keith and Alexis for their emails and to all others who spent time considering my problem.
I reseated the scsi cable connections and the problem resolved itself. This is what the output from the mt command should loo k like. # mt -f /dev/nst0 status drive type = Generic SCSI-2 tape drive status = 1157628416 sense key error = 0 residue count = 0 file number = 0 block number = 0 Tape block size 512 bytes. Density code 0x45 (unknown). Soft error count since last status=0 General status bits on (41010000): BOT ONLINE IM_REP_EN # Stephen On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 05:08:27PM +0100, Stephen Broadbridge wrote: > Hi All > > I cannot get my HP Travan T4000S Scsi tape drive to work. I have gathered > all the information I can find about the problem into the rest of this email. > Am I missing something obvious? Thanks in anticipation of any assistance > given. > > Stephen > > Here is the version information for my system. > $ uname -a > Linux Cemy1 2.2.17 #1 Sun Jun 25 09:24:41 EST 2000 i586 unknown > > and for mt:- > $ mt -V > GNU mt version 2.4.2 > > This is what happens when I try to access my tape drive. I get the same sort > of > result when I try to access /dev/st0. > # mt -f /dev/nst0 status > mt: /dev/nst0: Input/output error > > This is here for comparison with the above only. > # mt -f /dev/nst1 status > mt: /dev/nst1: Device not configured > > This is evidence of the st.o module on my machine. The file is located at > /lib/modules/2.2.17/scsi > # file st.o > st.o: ELF 32-bit LSB relocatable, Intel 80386, version 1, not stripped > > Here is a fragment of my /etc/modules file showing that st should load at > boot time. > # /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time. > # > lines removed from here > ne2k-pci > st > > Here are the two lines from /var/log/messages which suggest to me that the > tape drive has been detected:- > May 3 15:12:56 cemy1 kernel: st: bufsize 32768, wrt 30720, max buffers 5, > s/g segs 16. > May 3 15:12:56 cemy1 kernel: Detected scsi tape st0 at scsi0, channel 0, > id 6, lun 0 > > Here is the output from the command lsmod:- > # lsmod | egrep st > st 24264 0 > > Here is information from /var/log/messages about the booting of my SCSI bus:- > May 3 15:12:56 cemy1 kernel: Vendor: HP Model: T4000s > Rev: 1.06 > May 3 15:12:56 cemy1 kernel: Type: Sequential-Access > ANSI SCSI revision: 02 > > Here is the information provided about scsi modules by modprobe > # modprobe -c | grep scsi > path[scsi]=/lib/modules/2.2.17/scsi > path[scsi]=/lib/modules/2.2/scsi > path[scsi]=/lib/modules/default/scsi > path[scsi]=/lib/modules/scsi > alias scsi_hostadapter off > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
