my DAT tape drive used to work with my RHL system but yesterday, I tried to read a tape and it got messed up. At first, it seemed fine. It started reading the tape in response to my command: % tar tf /dev/st0 > listing but it wouldn't finish and give me a prompt. Inspection of "listing" showed that it only made it a little ways into the tar file (incomplete listing). Since then, it has been impossible to communicate with. Even after rebooting, the basic command % mt -f /dev/st0 status will either give no response and become a sleeping process that can't be killed, or it will say: /dev/st0: No such device or address
Can you tell where the problem is?
Rick Stevens <rstevens vitalstream com>
Did you change anything? Did you upgrade to FC1 or something along those lines?
The errors you show are SCSI errors. The most common causes are bad SCSI bus termination or SCSI controller problem.
If the SCSI card is a PCI card, try shutting down, opening the box and reseating the card (unscrew it, unplug it, plug it back in and screw it down again). You'd be amazed at how many problems that solves.
Rick, thanks for the suggestions. The DAT drive is working again! (I think it also needed a cleaning.)
What else did you do to get it to work. I'm needy and need closure! :-) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens vitalstream com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Is that a buffer overflow or are you just happy to see me? - ----------------------------------------------------------------------