RE: troubles with IDE tape
which drive? which kernel?
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Robert S. Koss, Ph.D. | Training and Mentoring
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin F Krafft [mailto:madduck@madduck.net]
> Sent: Friday, August 31, 2001 6:02 AM
> To: debian users
> Subject: troubles with IDE tape
>
>
> hi,
> i am experiencing troubles with an IDE tape, hooked up as secondary
> slave to an otherwise perfectly working machine.
>
> i created the device nodes for /dev/ht0 with `mknod /dev/hd0 c 37 0`
> but when i use 'mt' to display the status of the drive (or to rewind,
> or to erase, or to whatever), i get logs like the folloowing:
>
> kernel: ide-tape: Reached idetape_chrdev_open
> kernel: ide-tape: Reached idetape_read_position
> kernel: ide-tape: ht0: I/O error, pc = 10, key = 7, asc = 27, ascq = 0
> kernel: ide-tape: Reached idetape_read_position_callback
> kernel: ide-tape: Reached idetape_read_position
> kernel: ide-tape: ht0: I/O error, pc = 10, key = 7, asc = 27, ascq = 0
> kernel: ide-tape: Reached idetape_read_position_callback
> kernel: ide-tape: ht0: I/O error, pc = 10, key = 7, asc = 27, ascq = 0
> kernel: ide-tape: Reached idetape_read_position_callback
>
> i get the same errors when i do something trivial like
> `tar cf /dev/ht0 /boot`, which outputs
>
> tar: /dev/tape: Wrote only 0 of 10240 bytes
> tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
>
> i am pretty sure that the drive is working, it plays around with the
> tape when you insert it, and it's correctly identified by the linux
> kernel (2.4.9). any clues how i should go from here?
>
> martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.)
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