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 ma
Kurt Lieber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 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
>
...
On Monday 05 November 2001 05:16 pm, nate wrote:
> is the scsi cable terminated ? try mt -f /dev/st0 status
This is the output I get. Not sure how to decipher it:
z8:/home/kurtl/tmp# mt -f /dev/st0 status
SCSI 2 tape drive:
File number=0, block number=0, partition=0.
Tape block size 0 bytes. Den
Kurt Lieber said:
> 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
is the scsi cable terminated ? try mt
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