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RE: [PLUG] SCSI 8mm tape/drive question...
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It's not the cleaning blink, although it's supposed to
still work even if needs a cleaning (I did put in a
cleaning tape however, just to be sure).
I tried it both with and without a terminating resistor
(the one I used was an Active I believe).
It's a fairly short cable as well (under 3'), so I doubt
it's too long, and I'm not going through any adapters
either, it's just one cable from the PCMCIA card to the
drive enclosure.
thinking about it, I think the last drive I had in that
enclosure did the same thing (which was why I pulled
the tape drive from another system), I think I have
another enclosure I can try to swap it to. It's been
about 9 months since I last tried to use this drive.
Basically I'm trying to read some data off an old 8mm
tape (we now use 4mm tapes), so I brought my laptop in
to hook up the drive (I didn't want to shut down the
production system to hook in the drive to the SCSI chain).
George
-----Original Message-----
From: plug-bounces@lists.phillylinux.org
[mailto:plug-bounces@lists.phillylinux.org]On Behalf Of Edward Pike
Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2005 3:47 PM
To: Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List
Subject: Re: [PLUG] SCSI 8mm tape/drive question...
this could be nothing but on my 4mm dds tape,
blinking lights = asking for cleaning tape.
otherwise it might be terminators.
epike
On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 15:19 -0400, George Gallen wrote:
> Not sure if this is a tape drive problem or not.
>
> I have a Dell laptop running SLAX (very recent, unsure version#) live-cd,
> PCMCIA SCSI adapter -> Exabyte 8505 8mm tape drive (external of course)
>
> On powerup, the adapter is seen by SLAX, and the drive lights blink...
> After I login as root, the 8505 is listed under /proc/scsi
>
> If I try to put in a tape it immediately spits it back out,
>
> any attempt to read from /dev/st0 gives an i/o error,
> If I try /dev/st1 it gives a device not found error.
>
> Is there something I need to do to reset the drive? or a module
> I need to load? This drive was an internal drive in a working machine,
> I just moved it to an external enclosure, so it 'should' still work.
>
> George
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