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Re: [PLUG] SCSI tape - help!
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> I'm trying to get a SLR4-DC SCSI tape drive to work. the kernel sees it as
> /dev/st0, but i'm having trouble accessing the tape.
Not sure what _accessing_ means.
> when i put a tape in, it reads the tape for a while and the light blinks
> green. when it stops the light blinks orange. i tried this with 3 tapes over
> the last few weeks. same result each time.
This might be a hardware problem.
> today i realized that the tapes have been rewound so far that the tape has
> seperated from the end of the spool. i don't know if the tape drive isn't
> initialized correctly and it's rewinding too far or if the tapes were just bad.
mt -f /dev/st0 ?
> i'm attemping to read a tape that i know is good. since the tapes were from
> an AS/400, i think i need to format the tape, how do i do this? the regular
> format command?
I don't think you need to format this tape. Just rewind and dump it.
You can erase it: mt -f /dev/st0 erase
Fred
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