Re: 2.2.18 IDE tape problem, with ide-scsi

Khalid Aziz
2001-03-12T16:53:21Z

11,3 is "Multiple read errors". You can find all of the ASC and ASCQ
listed in any SCSI spec document. You can find the SCSI-2 specs at
<ftp://ftp.t10.org/t10/drafts/s2/s2-r10l.pdf>.

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Khalid

Camm Maguire wrote:
>
> Thank you again for your help. While I do seem to get more errors
> with the ide-tape driver, I am also seeing some problems on further
> examination which are common to both ide-tape and st over ide-scsi, so
> perhaps I have a bad drive or tape.
>
> When trying to mt eom, for example, I get
>
> =============================================================================
> st0: Error: 28000000, cmd: 5 0 0 0 0 0 Len: 16
> [valid=0] Info fld=0x0, Current st09:00: sns = 70 5
> ASC=20 ASCQ= 0
> Raw sense data:0x70 0x00 0x05 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x0a 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x20 0x00 0x00 0x00
> st0: Can't read block limits.
> st0: Mode sense. Length 11, medium b6, WBS 10, BLL 8
> st0: Density 45, tape length: 0, drv buffer: 1
> st0: Block size: 512, buffer size: 32768 (64 blocks).
> st0: Retensioning tape.
> st0: Error: 28000000, cmd: 5 0 0 0 0 0 Len: 16
> [valid=0] Info fld=0x0, Current st09:00: sns = 70 5
> ASC=20 ASCQ= 0
> Raw sense data:0x70 0x00 0x05 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x0a 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x20 0x00 0x00 0x00
> st0: Can't read block limits.
> st0: Mode sense. Length 11, medium b6, WBS 10, BLL 8
> st0: Density 45, tape length: 0, drv buffer: 1
> st0: Block size: 512, buffer size: 32768 (64 blocks).
> st0: Spacing tape forward over 16383 filemarks.
> st0: Spacing to end of recorded medium.
> st0: Error: 28000000, cmd: 11 3 0 0 0 0 Len: 16
> Info fld=0x3feb, Deferred st09:00: sns = f1 3
> ASC=11 ASCQ= 3
> Raw sense data:0xf1 0x00 0x03 0x00 0x00 0x3f 0xeb 0x0a 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x11 0x03 0x00 0x00
> st0: Error: 28000000, cmd: 5 0 0 0 0 0 Len: 16
> [valid=0] Info fld=0x0, Current st09:00: sns = 70 5
> ASC=20 ASCQ= 0
> Raw sense data:0x70 0x00 0x05 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x0a 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x20 0x00 0x00 0x00
> st0: Can't read block limits.
> st0: Mode sense. Length 11, medium b6, WBS 10, BLL 8
> st0: Density 45, tape length: 0, drv buffer: 1
> st0: Block size: 512, buffer size: 32768 (64 blocks).
> st0: Rewinding tape.
> =============================================================================
>
> What is the 11,3? Where can I find these codes listed? Why is the
> drive having trouble finding the end of the tape? I'll be testing
> more tapes soon, but this definitely happens with at least several.
> The mt command returned to the prompt with 'Input/ouput error'.
>
> Many Thanks again,
>

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