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Re: AHA-2940,
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kenneth Johansson)
Mon Mar 22 12:37:09 1999
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 17:56:55 +0100
From: Kenneth Johansson <ken@kieraypc01.p.y.ki.era.ericsson.se>
To: Marc SCHAEFER <schaefer@alphanet.ch>
CC: Simon Burley <sjb@dneg.com>, linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
Marc SCHAEFER wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Mar 1999, Kenneth Johansson wrote:
>
> > I have noticed it happens when the tape backup software dose eject on the tape. The tape is not
> > ejected and the harddrive get this error. It only happens whit an eject. everything works fine up
> > to this point.
>
> Interesting. The command to eject a tape from a SCSI Sequential Access
> device is the same as the one to do a spin down on a SCSI hard drive :)
>
> Are you sure your backup software is not, like Arkeia, sending the
> EJECT to a generic device (/dev/sga or /dev/sg1), and that the
> first device (in order from small SCSI IDs to big ones) is really
> your harddrive.
>
> If yes, change Arkeia to use /dev/sgb (or /dev/sg2)
>
> :)
Bulls eye!!
Silly me thinking that /dev/st0 /dev/nst0 and /dev/sg0 actually meant the same device.
One would think that one device would be enough like /dev/scsi_card[0-xx]_id_[0-16].
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