[Gllug] [OTish] SureStore DAT24

[Andrew Richardson]

Err, I know this sounds a bit simplistic, but where is the tape drive 
mounted ?  Cat is all very well as it works using the proc system but 
(iirc)to use tar, cp, mv etc requires that the device has a mount point 
in the real file system.

Andrew

Taylor James wrote:
> 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,
> 


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