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by **Ian Brig** » Thu, 07 Jun 2001 07:30:33

I'm having trouble accessing an internal HP Colorado 4/8GB. The hardware
itself seems OK as it repositions the tape on bootup; and Linux seems to
recognize it OK (dmesg reports "hdd: HP COLORADO 8GB, ATAPI TAPE drive").

But taper -T ide (using /dev/ht0) returns "Input/output error while
rewinding tape"; and mt -f /dev/ht0 status also returns "Input/output
error". So Linux seems to know the tape drive is there, but can't access
it.

Any suggestions where I'm going wrong here? (I'm running RH 6.1)

Thanks in advance,

Ian

by **Carbo** » Mon, 11 Jun 2001 13:00:56

I had exactly the same symptoms with a seagate 28000 drive, and it turned
out that the tape I was using was bad. More than likely it's something
else, but hey it's worth a shot . . .

> I'm having trouble accessing an internal HP Colorado 4/8GB. The
> hardware itself seems OK as it repositions the tape on bootup; and Linux
> seems to recognize it OK (dmesg reports "hdd: HP COLORADO 8GB, ATAPI
> TAPE drive").

> But taper -T ide (using /dev/ht0) returns "Input/output error while
> rewinding tape"; and mt -f /dev/ht0 status also returns "Input/output
> error". So Linux seems to know the tape drive is there, but can't
> access it.

> Any suggestions where I'm going wrong here? (I'm running RH 6.1)

> Thanks in advance,

> Ian

by **Ian Brig** » Tue, 12 Jun 2001 06:31:52

:I had exactly the same symptoms with a seagate 28000 drive, and it turned
:out that the tape I was using was bad. More than likely it's something
:else, but hey it's worth a shot . . .

It's a brand new tape, so -- although that's still possible -- it's not
too likely.

Ian

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