From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "David L Kindred (Dave)" Subject: Issues with an Exabyte 8200 Drive Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 13:35:54 -0500 Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <15826.39818.555109.68314@gargle.gargle.HOWL> Reply-To: d.kindred@telesciences.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org 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? -- David L. Kindred Unix Systems & Network Administrator Telesciences, Inc. Support: 2000 Midlantic Drive, Suite 410, Mt. Laurel, NJ 08054 Tel: +1.856.866.1000 ext. 4184 Fax: +1.856.866.0185 ---