I discovered the problem -- it turned out to be the SCSI chain wasn't correctly terminated. (or it may have been because I was using passive termination -- I'm not sure)
I purchased a new internal SCSI cable with an active terminator and now it works fine. Posting this here in the hopes it may help someone down the road. --kurt On Monday 05 November 2001 04:50 pm, Kurt Lieber wrote: > I just installed an internal SCSI HP DDS3 drive and am having trouble > getting it to work. > > If I put in a new tape and try to erase it receive the following error: > > z8:~/backup# mt -f /dev/st0 erase > /dev/st0: Input/output error > > and the following shows up in the syslog: > > Nov 5 16:30:35 z8 kernel: st0: Error with sense data: Current st09:00: sns > = 70 3 > Nov 5 16:30:35 z8 kernel: ASC=3b ASCQ= 0 > Nov 5 16:30:35 z8 kernel: Raw sense data:0x70 0x00 0x03 0x00 0x00 0x00 > 0x00 0x0e 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x3b 0x00 0x02 0x00 0x00 0xee 0x00 0x00 0x00 > 0x00
