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SCSI DAT not recognized
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (kanaan)
Sat Jun 21 22:57:00 1997
Date: Sat, 21 Jun 1997 23:56:31 -0300
From: kanaan <kanaan@pcastro7.if.ufrgs.br>
To: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
Hi folks,
I recently installed RedHat 2.0.27 and was having trouble with my SCSI
controller. I was told to install the Future Domain module and all is
ok now. Well, almost. The SCSI disk is behaving and I am
using it just fine.
Now, the SCSI tape is a problem. Actually this looks more like a DAT
problem than a SCSI problem. It may not be suited for this mailing
list, sorry if that is the case. We had this DAT unit connected to a
Sparc5 before and it never worked (I'm told it did work under Windows
95). querying the unit:
********************************* (on a sparc5 (sunOS4.1.4)) *********
mt -f /dev/rst8 status
marte|~> mt -f /dev/rst0 status
Exabyte EXB-8200 8mm tape drive:
sense key(0x0)= no sense residual= 0 retries= 0
file no= 0 block no= 0
marte|~>
Trying to access it:
marte|~> tar -tvf /dev/rst0
tar: read error: Invalid argument
marte|~> tar -tvf /dev/rst8
tar: read error: Invalid argument
**********************************************************************
Now in my Linux machine:
pcastro7>mt -f /dev/st0 status
SCSI 2 tape drive:
File number=0, block number=0, partition=0.
Tape block size 0 bytes. Density code 0x0 (default).
Soft error count since last status=0
General status bits on (40010000):
BOT IM_REP_EN
other mt commands such as rewind, rewindoffl work fine.
[root@pcastro7 kanaan]# tar -tvf /dev/st0
tar: Read error on /dev/st0: I/O error
tar: At beginning of tape, quitting now
*************************************************************************
At boot time I get the following messages:
Jun 20 16:04:50 pcastro7 kernel: scsi0 <fdomain>: TMC-36C70 (PCI bus) chip at 0x6200 irq 9
Jun 20 16:04:50 pcastro7 kernel: scsi0 : Future Domain TMC-16x0 SCSI driver, version 5.44
Jun 20 16:04:50 pcastro7 kernel: scsi : 1 host.
Jun 20 16:04:50 pcastro7 kernel: Vendor: SONY Model: SDT-5000 Rev: 3.26
Jun 20 16:04:50 pcastro7 kernel: Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Jun 20 16:04:50 pcastro7 kernel: Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST15230N Rev: 0298
Jun 20 16:04:50 pcastro7 kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Jun 20 16:04:50 pcastro7 kernel: Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 5, lun 0
Jun 20 16:04:50 pcastro7 kernel: scsi : detected 1 SCSI disk total.
Jun 20 16:04:50 pcastro7 kernel: SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 8386733 [4095 MB] [4.1 GB]
Jun 20 16:04:50 pcastro7 kernel: Partition check:
Jun 20 16:04:50 pcastro7 kernel: sda: sda1 sda2 sda4
...
Jun 20 16:04:50 pcastro7 kernel: Detected scsi tape st0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 4, lun 0
Any clue?
Thanks,
Antonio
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Antonio Kanaan
Astronomy Postdoc
Instituto de Fisica - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
kanaan@if.ufrgs.br
phone = 55.51.3166451
fax = 55.51.3191762
