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tape drive
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jean Meloche)
Wed Apr 14 11:10:56 1999
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 03:57:08 +0000
From: Jean Meloche <jean@stat.ubc.ca>
To: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
I would appreciate some help with a tape problem.
I'm trying to read a 4mm DAT tape. I have a SCSI
tape drive and I get what appears below.
Can someone give me a hint as to what might be wrong?
Can all SCSI tape drive read all 4mm DAT tapes or is
there some formatting issues there?
What do I need to know/do to be able to read this tape
on my system?
Many many thanks.
# mt status
SCSI 2 tape drive:
File number=0, block number=0, partition=0.
Tape block size 512 bytes. Density code 0x13 (DDS (61000 bpi)).
Soft error count since last status=0
General status bits on (45010000):
BOT WR_PROT ONLINE IM_REP_EN
# cat /dev/tape >au98.0
cat: /dev/tape: Input/output error
and /var/log/messages says
Apr 13 19:32:30 nuclear kernel: st0: Incorrect block size.
I also tried different block sizes with dd with the same
result.
--
Jean Meloche
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