Re: Where is the problem: Tape Drive? Cartridge(s)? Cable? SAS Controller?

[deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com>]

Thomas Schmitt wrote:

> Hi,
> 
>> Nov 13 08:02:29 BigMutt kernel: [34669.493879] st 0:0:0:0: [st0] Error
>> e0000 (driver bt 0x0, host bt 0xe).
>> Nov 13 08:02:31 BigMutt kernel: [34671.743714] st 0:0:0:0: [st0] Error
>> 10000 (driver bt 0x0, host bt 0x1).
> 
> This looks electrical, not mechanical or magnetical.
> 
> I am sure that above messages are not the complaint of healthy drive
> firmware about a bad medium or a drive problem. It probably comes from
> line 391 of
>   https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/scsi/st.c
> It seems to get emitted when no SCSI error condition was sent back by the
> drive, but the transaction failed nevertheless.
> 

I would try the drive with older version I know it worked.