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SCSI DAT drive recognised but won't operate

SCSI DAT drive recognised but won't operate

Post by eng.. » Sun, 31 Dec 1899 09:00:00



Hi All! - I have added an Adaptec 2940AU and a
Sony SDT-9000 to a Dell 450MHz system running RH
5.2. After adding "alias scsi_hostadapter
aic7xxx" in /etc/conf.modules, the card and tape
are recognised. I have done no other
reconfiguration. Now, an "mt -f /dev/st0 status"
comes back saying "SCSI 2 tape drive... BOT
DR_OPEN IM_REP_EN" (abbreviated) which I think
indicates no tape in the drive, whether or not
this is actually so. Any other mt operation
causes some tape activity but fails and
returns "Input/output error" (except offline,
which sometimes works). The hardware works
perfectly under Win98 booted on the same machine,
so I doubt it is the dreaded termination issue.
Anyone any idea of what is wrong, or what tools
might be available for diagnosis? Thanks to all,

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SCSI DAT drive recognised but won't operate

Post by David . » Sun, 31 Dec 1899 09:00:00



> Hi All! - I have added an Adaptec 2940AU and a
> Sony SDT-9000 to a Dell 450MHz system running RH
> 5.2. After adding "alias scsi_hostadapter
> aic7xxx" in /etc/conf.modules, the card and tape
> are recognised. I have done no other
> reconfiguration. Now, an "mt -f /dev/st0 status"
> comes back saying "SCSI 2 tape drive... BOT
> DR_OPEN IM_REP_EN" (abbreviated) which I think
> indicates no tape in the drive, whether or not
> this is actually so. Any other mt operation
> causes some tape activity but fails and
> returns "Input/output error" (except offline,
> which sometimes works). The hardware works
> perfectly under Win98 booted on the same machine,
> so I doubt it is the dreaded termination issue.
> Anyone any idea of what is wrong, or what tools
> might be available for diagnosis? Thanks to all,

> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.

With an SCSI tape drive you may want to check  www.arkeia.com  they have
backup software for scsi tape drives which can be downloaded for free
for personal use.

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