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RE: Seagate CTT8000-S Tape Drive
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Wreski)
Wed Dec 24 23:26:06 1997
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.971224000811.3073A-100000@olympus>
Date: Wed, 24 Dec 1997 22:43:01 -0500 (EST)
From: Dave Wreski <dave@nic.com>
To: Lord Zeus <root@hotmail.com>
Cc: Linux SCSI Mailing List <linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu>
> I have recently acquired a SCSI CTT8000 Tape Drive (4/8 GB Travan SCSI)
> and got it recognized on a new AHA 2940 card. Even though it reports as
> there in /proc/scsi/scsi and I can see it through xbru, every attempt to
> read/write fails. Example:
> From /usr/src/linux
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> tar -cvf /dev/nst0 *
>
> COPYING
> tar: Cannot write to /dev/nst0: Input/output error
> tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now.
What does 'mt -f /dev/st0 status' tell you? Which version of tar are you using?
Do you have scsi tape support in the kernel?
Dave
