Re: [Dump-users] QFA on DLT drives?

[Stelian P. <st...@po...>]

On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 02:56:01PM +0200, Dick Visser wrote:

> > mt stoptions scsi2logical
> 
> Ah this might be of some help!
> When I issue "mt stoptions" (without options, I guess this will just list
> the current options?), I see this in my dmesg:
> 
> st0: Mode 0 options: buffer writes: 1, async writes: 0, read ahead: 0
> st0:    can bsr: 0, two FMs: 0, fast mteom: 0, auto lock: 0,
> st0:    defs for wr: 0, no block limits: 0, partitions: 0, s2 log: 0
> st0:    sysv: 0 nowait: 0
> 
> When I issue the command you say, I see:
> 
> st0: Mode 0 options: buffer writes: 0, async writes: 0, read ahead: 0
> st0:    can bsr: 0, two FMs: 0, fast mteom: 0, auto lock: 0,
> st0:    defs for wr: 0, no block limits: 0, partitions: 0, s2 log: 0
> st0:    sysv: 0 nowait: 0

The problem is that you de-activated buffered writes, but still
not activated scsi2logical (s2 log: field in mt output)...

Try:
	mt -f /dev/st0 stsetoptions scsi2logical

What version of mt you have ?

Stelian.
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