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Tar to/from Aiwa Travan 20 SCSI Tape drive
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I terminated both the 2940UW SCSI card and the AIWA Travan 20 (QIC/TR-5) tape drive. I set the SCSI controller to the lowest transfer rate, 10M/sec, and made it asynchronous. This was suggested by a respondant. Here's what I got from the "dmesg"
(scsi0) <Adaptec AHA-294X Ultra SCSI host adapter> found at PCI 13/0
(scsi0) Wide Channel, SCSI ID=7, 16/255 SCBs
(scsi0) Downloading sequencer code... 419 instructions downloaded
scsi0 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x (EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI) 5.1.10/3.2.4
<Adaptec AHA-294X Ultra SCSI host adapter>
scsi : 1 host.
Vendor: AIWA Model: TD-20001 Rev: 0159
Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi tape st0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 4, lun 0
(scsi0:0:4:0) Using asynchronous transfers
Now the tape drive keeps blinking orange with a tape and I get this error everytime I try to send a command to the Tape Drive:
/dev/st0: Input/output error
I tried reverting back to the oringinal settings but I keep getting the same error. If someone has an idea of what is happening, can you share it with me. Much obliged.
Fustrated Pat
I used Modprobe to install my Adaptec 2940UW and it seems to identify my tape drive too. When I do a "tar cvf /dev/st0 /bin" It goes through all the files of the /bin directory, and the tape starts spinning. Then at the end, I get these error messages:
st0: Error with sense data: Current error st09:00: sense key Medium Error
Additional sense indicates Write error
st0: Error on write file mark
st0: Error with sense data: extra data not valid Current error st09:00: sense key Medium Error
Additional sense indicates Write error
tar: WARNING : Cannot close /dev/st0 (3, -1): Input/Output error
So does anybody know what this means and how I can get my tape drive to wrok properly.
Pat
I terminated both the 2940UW SCSI card and the AIWA Travan 20 (QIC/TR-5) tape drive. I set the SCSI controller to the lowest transfer rate, 10M/sec, and made it asynchronous. This was suggested by a respondant. Here's what I got from the "dmesg"
(scsi0) <Adaptec AHA-294X Ultra SCSI host adapter> found at PCI 13/0
(scsi0) Wide Channel, SCSI ID=7, 16/255 SCBs
(scsi0) Downloading sequencer code... 419 instructions downloaded
scsi0 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x (EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI) 5.1.10/3.2.4
<Adaptec AHA-294X Ultra SCSI host adapter>
scsi : 1 host.
Vendor: AIWA Model: TD-20001 Rev: 0159
Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi tape st0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 4, lun 0
(scsi0:0:4:0) Using asynchronous transfers
Now the tape drive keeps blinking orange with a tape and I get this error everytime I try to send a command to the Tape Drive:
/dev/st0: Input/output error
I tried reverting back to the oringinal settings but I keep getting the same error. If someone has an idea of what is happening, can you share it with me. Much obliged.
Fustrated Pat
I used Modprobe to install my Adaptec 2940UW and it seems to identify my tape drive too. When I do a "tar cvf /dev/st0 /bin" It goes through all the files of the /bin directory, and the tape starts spinning. Then at the end, I get these error messages:
st0: Error with sense data: Current error st09:00: sense key Medium Error
Additional sense indicates Write error
st0: Error on write file mark
st0: Error with sense data: extra data not valid Current error st09:00: sense key Medium Error
Additional sense indicates Write error
tar: WARNING : Cannot close /dev/st0 (3, -1): Input/Output error
So does anybody know what this means and how I can get my tape drive to wrok properly.
Pat
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I actually had a bad tape drive
so are your tape problems over now or are you constantly getting I/O errors?
after that try mt retention and see if it works.
You may also wish to try dumping a testfile
dd if=/dev/zero of=myfile bs=1k count=10000 (create a 10 meg file)
tar cvf /dev/st0 myfile
and see if you get the same errors.