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On Friday, November 13, 2020 8:52 PM, Dan Ritter wrote:
> Right, that routine is to establish whether you have a tape
> problem or a hardware problem.
OK. I'm almost positive I have a hardware problem. But the p
ghe2001 wrote:
> On Friday, November 13, 2020 7:51 PM, Dan Ritter
> wrote:
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> > It doesn't ring a bell, but did you do the diagnostic steps of:
> >
> > - get a dump of what's on the problem tape now, confirm which
> > part is good
> >
> > - write a different file to a new tape
> > -
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On Friday, November 13, 2020 7:51 PM, Dan Ritter wrote:
> It doesn't ring a bell, but did you do the diagnostic steps of:
>
> - get a dump of what's on the problem tape now, confirm which
> part is good
>
>
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ghe2001 wrote:
> The problem is that my Quantum LTO-5 drive (4 or 5 years old) is
> writing for a while, then failing. It reads, does 'mt' things, and
> amcheck just fine.
Have you cleaned the drive lately? (Or is that still necessary? It's
been a while since
ghe2001 wrote:
> I know this is way OT, but the amanda-users list isn't working, not for me
> anyway, and this list is full of knowledgeable people.
>
> The problem is that my Quantum LTO-5 drive (4 or 5 years old) is writing for
> a while, then failing. It reads, does 'mt' things, and amcheck
on Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 01:56:48PM -0800, Richard Weil ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> Hi --
>
> I can't access use my tape drive with the tar or mt programs and could
> use some help.
>
> I'm running a 2.4.12 kernel and using a SCSI Seagate DDS3 tape drive.
> The drive appears to be recognized fin
What does mt -f /dev/[n]st0 status report?
Are you including the -f and specifying the device in your mt commands? --
mt's default device is /dev/tape, from memory, so you'll need to override
it (or create a symlink in /dev).
HTH,
Matt
At 08:56 06/12/2001, Richard Weil wrote:
Hi --
I can't
Hi --
I can't access use my tape drive with the tar or mt
programs and could use some help.
I'm running a 2.4.12 kernel and using a SCSI Seagate
DDS3 tape drive. The drive appears to be recognized
fine on bootup (by looking at dmesg) and the relevant
modules are loaded -- st and scsi_mod. The pow
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