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Re: SCSI DAT drive suggestions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Pete Popov)
Wed May 7 09:46:05 1997
Date: Tue, 06 May 1997 10:59:03 -0700
From: Pete Popov <pete_popov@asd.sel.sony.com>
To: Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs@hpc.uh.edu>
CC: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
>
> >>>>> "PP" == Pete Popov <pete_popov@asd.sel.sony.com> writes:
>
> PP> [...] Sony's SDT-9000 is the _only_ realiable DDS3 drive currently on
> PP> the market.
>
> I just got one of these, pulled it out of the box and plugged it into my
> Adaptec 2940UW, popped in a tape and tried to tar off some stuff. You
> could hear the mechanism doing its thing, moving the tape about, and then a
> nice SCSI error. Oops.
>
> This left me scratching my head. I'm not at the machine now so I can't
> clip the errors off of the console, but before I blame the drive or the
> tape I wonder if I have to twiddle the kernel to support the drive. I'm
> running RedHat 4.0, kernel 2.0.27 with no patches.
I remember having _some_ problems with the 2940UW and Red Hat 4.0, but
I have no idea if they are related to your problem at all. I'll gladly
try to help you resolve the problem, although if it's not a drive
problem, I don't think I'll be of much help. Please check the easy
stuff first, such as termination. What firmware level do you have
in the drive? Is the drive internal or in an external power enclosure?
It didn't sound like the drive appeared to be hung; is the drive
accessable after the failure with a simple command, such as
"mt -f /dev/st? status"?
Pete
