W. Chris Shank on Thu, 27 Jun 2002 05:00:13 +0200


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[PLUG] SCSI tape - help!


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. 

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. 

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. 

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? 

any help is appreciated.

thanks

chris  


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