[Gllug] [OTish] SureStore DAT24

[Taylor James]

Taylor James wrote:
> 
> 
> Thanks to everyone for their help on this. I got an Adaptec 2904 off
> ebay for around £20 including postage. I'll let you know how I get on.
> 
> /me crosses fingers.
> 

Well, my SCSI card arrived and I plugged in the tape drive and it worked,
straight off! For a bit :-(

I can cat a file to and from /dev/st0 quite happily, I can do a 'mt -f
/dev/st0 erase' and it erases the tape fine. When I try a 'tar cvpf /dev/st0
/mnt/mp3' however, I get the following:

    deathstar:/home/james# tar cvpf /dev/st0 /mnt/mp3/
    tar: Removing leading `/' from member names
    mnt/mp3/
    mnt/mp3/Beck/
    mnt/mp3/Beck/Sea Change/
    mnt/mp3/Beck/Sea Change/01-The Golden Age.mp3
    mnt/mp3/Beck/Sea Change/02-Paper Tiger.mp3
    mnt/mp3/Beck/Sea Change/03-Guess I'm Doing Fine.mp3
    mnt/mp3/Beck/Sea Change/04-Lonesome Tears.mp3
    mnt/mp3/Beck/Sea Change/05-Lost Cause.mp3
    mnt/mp3/Beck/Sea Change/06-End of the Day.mp3
    mnt/mp3/Beck/Sea Change/07-It's All In Your Mind.mp3
    mnt/mp3/Beck/Sea Change/08-Round The Bend.mp3
    tar: /dev/st0: Wrote only 0 of 10240 bytes
    tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

The list of files is always a different length, sometimes it gets as far as
Belle and Sebastian.

/var/log/messages gives the following:

    Jun 20 18:29:46 deathstar kernel: scsi : aborting 
    command due to timeout : pid 35470, scsi0, channel 
    0, id 3, lun 0 Write (6) 00 00 20 00 00
    Jun 20 18:29:47 deathstar kernel: SCSI host 0 abort 
    (pid 35470) timed out - resetting
    Jun 20 18:29:47 deathstar kernel: SCSI bus is being 
    reset for host 0 channel 0.
    Jun 20 18:29:47 deathstar kernel: (scsi0:0:3:0) 
    Synchronous at 10.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 15.
    Jun 20 18:29:48 deathstar kernel: st0: Error with 
    sense data: [valid=0] Info fld=0x0, Current st09:00: 
    sense key Unit Attention
    Jun 20 18:29:48 deathstar kernel: Additional sense 
    indicates Power on, reset, or bus device reset 
    occurred

(Yes, I know I really should set the date.)

I have googled for this error, and found loads of people with the same
problem but no solution. A lot of people have suggested setting the
blocksize - I've done this on the drive and from the tar command to no
avail. I've also tried turning compression on the drive off with 'mt -f
/dev/st0 compression 0' which does nothing. Perhaps there's a different way
to turn compression off with this paticular drive?

Hopefully, the thing just needs a good clean, but until my cleaning tape
arrives I can't try that.

Has anybody got any other ideas?

Cheers,

-- 
james




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