Re: 2.2.18 IDE tape problem, with ide-scsi

Camm Maguire
2001-02-27T17:19:50Z

Greetings, and thanks so much for your helpful reply!

Khalid Aziz <khalid@fc.hp.com> writes:

> Camm Maguire wrote:
> >
> > The Conner gives the problem:
> >
> > Feb 27 06:23:16 intech9 kernel: st0: Error with sense data: [valid=0] Info fld=0x0, Current st09:00: sns = 70 5
> > Feb 27 06:23:16 intech9 kernel: ASC=20 ASCQ= 0
> > Feb 27 06:23:16 intech9 kernel: Raw sense data:0x70 0x00 0x05 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x0a 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x20 0x00 0x00 0x00
> >
> > and occaisional 'gunzip: unexpected end of file' errors on verifying
> > the tape.
> >
> > Take care,
> >
> > --
> > Camm Maguire camm@enhanced.com
>
> ASC/ASCQ of 0x20/0x00 means "Invalid command operation code". So the
> drive is rejecting a command sent to it by the driver. If the other
> drive that is working is identical to seemingly non-working one, maybe
> this drive is going bad.
>

Thanks for the error identification. The other drive is of a
*different* model. This drive showed this behavior from the day I
bought it. The drive could be going bad, but I doubt it. Is it
possible that this manufacturer (Conner) has some peculiar
implementation of the spec? I recall reading on this list sometime
back of similar workarounds to unusual drives.

> st driver prints the SCSI command that may have caused this error only
> when compiled with debug turned on. Maybe st driver should always print
> the command that results in a check condition as long as the command is
> not a Test Unit Ready or Mode Sense.
>

Can I turn on debug mode in runtime, or do I need to recompile
ide-scsi?

Take care,

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>
>

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