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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.
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> Not sure what _accessing_ means.
I/O errors on /dev/st0
turns out this was because the tapes were faulty.
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>> 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.
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> This might be a hardware problem.
bad tapes
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>> 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.
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> mt -f /dev/st0 ?
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>> 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?
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> I don't think you need to format this tape. Just rewind and dump it.
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> You can erase it: mt -f /dev/st0 erase
i was finally able to use the tape drive, this time with a tape that wasn't
broken. the question is, were the tapes bad, or did the tape drives break
the tapes somehow (and if so - how do i prevent it from happening again).
-chris
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> Fred
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