Hmm. I can't think of much else. Is this a new unit? Was it ever
working before? Have you checked the termination? I had some problems
with a scsi hard drive some time ago. After a lot of travail, I
discovered that it had not been terminated. Good luck,
Hidong
Bigdog wrote:
>
> >>>>> "seh" == Stephen E Hargrove <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> seh> Hidong Kim wrote:
> >>
> >> Have you tried just regular tar?
> >>
> >> tar cvf /some/directory /dev/st0
>
> seh> /dev/st0 is nonresponsive. The tape whirs during boot-up and dmesg lists
> seh> the drive as mentioned before. Other than this, nothing.
>
> Have you tried some of the simple commands to check that the drive
> itself is OK, such as:
>
> mt -f /dev/st0 status
>
> Check the manpage of 'mt' for other commands such as rewind, offline
> etc just to see if you can talk to the drive at all.
> It could be a cable or drive hardware problem.
>
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