[H-GEN] DAT Tape errors

[Steve Elliott]

(Note reply-to: being general at humbug.org.au vs Steve Elliott <steve at virtuozo.com.au>)

Michael Anthon wrote:
> 
> (Note reply-to: being general at humbug.org.au vs Michael Anthon <mca at tams.com.au>)
> 
> It's a SONY DDS2 tape drive..
> 
> Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 06 Lun: 00
>   Vendor: SONY     Model: SDT-5000         Rev: 3.30
>   Type:   Sequential-Access                ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> 
> Oh, cool, I love Linux!!  I spoke to the tape provider, it's written on a
> Unisys box apparently but the guy I spoke to didn't seem to know much about
> it technically.
> 
> I thought of testing it with a blank tape also, but unfortunately I don't
> own a blank tape.....
> 
> Cheers

So is that a different box to the one that the other tapes u have used
were written on ?I guess he doesn't know huh ? Maybe they've also
changed the tape device they wrote it with also, just to really confuse
the issue.

I've got an sdt-5000 here and have been down the track of using no swap
devices etc as per prev posting - what a fsck'er.

On the sgi, the /dev/mt dir has a number of different options 4 the tape
device - swap bytes, no swap bytes, variable block size etc. Does the
same thing happen on Linux ?

I have also seen I/o errors on some of my tar tapes - using the right
tape device as per prev post usually sorts 'em out - **usually**.

I think u need 2 find out if they have done anything different with the
way the tape was written - different hardware etc.

Ain't it fun ? 
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Regards,                                 
Steve Elliott.                           

Support Manager
VirtuoZo Systems
WWW:  http://www.virtuozo.com.au/

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