Re: SCSI Tape problems

[Daniel Green <g595455 etpc87 mar lmco com>]

Alright,

Everything is working now.  Thanks to Wes for pointing out that I was
leaving the block size of my dd command.  I am disapointed that the QLogic
controller doesn't work,  I now have two controllers one for tapes, one for
disks.

Has anyone been able to get SRM to recognize the Adaptec controllers.  When
I do a sh dev at srm it only sees the scsi devices on the qlogic
controller, however linux has no problem accessing and using both.  It
would be nice to reduce down to the one adaptec controller if the hardware
would support booting from it.

Thanks again,
Dan


Daniel Green wrote:

> I am trying to use a scsi tape drive to backup/read data/write data.   I
> am using the 2.4.10 kernel and a sony ait 300C tape drive.  I have the Q
> Logic ISP1020 (rev 05) controller.  I am unable to get dd to do
> anything.
>
> dd if=/dev/st0 of=test.raw
> dd: reading `/dev/st0': Input/output error
> 0+0 records in
> 0+0 records out
> dd: closing input file `/dev/st0': Input/output error
>
> If I use tar to say copy some files to the tape, it will work for about
> 10 minutes before freezing up.  I have to hard boot the machine to get
> it back.  Anybody have any ideas.
>
> Thanks,
> Dan
>
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