From: "David L Kindred (Dave)" <d.kindred@telesciences.com>
To: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Issues with an Exabyte 8200 Drive
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 13:35:54 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <15826.39818.555109.68314@gargle.gargle.HOWL> (raw)
Greetings
I have an older Exabyte 8200 tape drive connected to one my Linux boxes
(RH 7.2 2.4.9-31 Kernel). The drive appears to work fine if I write a
tape on it and then read it back.
Unfortunately, I also have some older tapes written ON THAT DRIVE, on an
old SunOS system that is no longer operational. I am unable to read
those tapes.
From /var/log/messages:
kernel: st3: Incorrect block size.
kernel: st3: Error 8 (sugg. bt 0x0, driver bt 0x0, host bt 0x0).
I strongly suspect a mismatch in block size, density, etc., to be the
cause of this, but no combination of options I have tried has helped. I
have tried to make sense out of the mt and st man pages, but without
some idea as to what the various options should (or may) be set at I am
having no success. In particular, I any attempt to use the mt stoptions
or related commands just makes things worse.
Anybody got any pointers on making this work?
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David L. Kindred <mailto:d.kindred@telesciences.com>
Unix Systems & Network Administrator
Telesciences, Inc. <http://www.telesciences.com>
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