I am having similar problems getting a RH6.2 box to read a scsi tape drive.
The tape drive is an Exabyte 8200 series 8mm drive. It works if it is
connected to an HPUX machine, or an older SunOS 4.1.2 machine. But I cannot
seem to read a tape that was created in tar format from the SunOS box from
this tape drive.
kudzu sees the drive. I can do a status on the drive, I can rewind
it, and forward it with no problems, but I cannot read the tape. -- Is there
a format difference between tar's on hpux / SunOS, and RH?
Or is there something at the HW level that I am missing?
TIA - RYAN
[root@infburprd00 /root]# mt -f /dev/st1 status
SCSI 2 tape drive:
File number=0, block number=0, partition=0.
Tape block size 1024 bytes. Density code 0x14 (EXB-8200 (RLL 43245 bpi)).
Soft error count since last status=0
General status bits on (41010000):
BOT ONLINE IM_REP_EN
[root@infburprd00 /root]# scsi_info /dev/st1
SCSI_ID="0,5,0"
MODEL="Sequenti s"
FW_REV="SCSI"
[root@infburprd00 /root]# mt -f /dev/st1 rewind
[root@infburprd00 /root]# mt -f /dev/st1 fsf 1
[root@infburprd00 /root]# mt -f /dev/st1 rewind
[root@infburprd00 /root]# tar tf /dev/st1
tar: /dev/st1: Cannot read: Input/output error
tar: At beginning of tape, quitting now
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Ocean [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, February 23, 2001 9:29 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Trying to Get fTape to Work
At 12:27 AM 2/23/2001 -0600, you wrote:
>Ben Ocean wrote:
> >
> > Hi;
> > I'm having a heck of a hard time configuring my tape drive. I have RH6.2
> > and a SeaGate 20/40 LVD DDS-4. I ran this command:
> > >>>
> > thewebsons:/dev# mt -f st0 rewind
> > <<<
> > and it gave me another command prompt so I guess it liked it. I presume
> > that means RH knows the device is there, right? However, I ran these
> commands:
>
>I would assume so to bit did the tape drive light come on?
Dunno. The machine is located elsewhere.
> > >>>
> > thewebsons:/usr/lib/apache# tar -cvf /dev/st0 /apache
> > tar: /dev/st0: Read-only file system
> > tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
> > thewebsons:/usr/lib/apache# tar -tvf /dev/st0
> > tar: Read error on /dev/st0: Input/output error
> > tar: At beginning of tape, quitting now
> > tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
> > <<<
> > and as you can see, no luck. So, then I got to wondering if all I need
to
> > do is format the tape. But apparently you can't do that in Linux?! Where
do
> > I go from here?
> >
>
>What do the perms on the tape device look like?
root.disk
Is that what it should be?
>what does
>mt -f /dev/st0 status
>return?
>
>
>Bret
>
>
>
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