Re: [flexbackup-help] ide-scsi problems

[Roger P. <rp...@pr...>]

On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 09:18:36 -0000 (GMT)
"Andy" <an...@ac...> wrote:

> Hi All,
> I've done quite a few searches and read previous posts but none seem to
> help out my situation.
> 
> I'm using the IDE SCSI emulation (Tape drive is Seagate Model:
> STT20000A) dmesg shows the tape driver loads, identifies the unit and
> then spits out: st: Version 20030403, bufsize 32768, max init. bufs 4,
> s/g segs 16 Attached scsi tape st0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
> st0: Error with sense data: Current st09:00: sense key Illegal Request
> Additional sense indicates Invalid command operation code
> 

Hi:

I use the same tape drive.  Don't use SCSI, use hd?=ide-tape in your boot
package.  Then set the blksize to 32k, and then use the 
-test-tape-drive option to verify that it works. Much faster to test. 

This drive has one problem:  if the write operation fails, you usually
have to power-cycle the machine (ugh) to restore the drive to sanity.  If
you can fix that one, please let me know how.

The relevant bits from my config file are:

$type = 'afio';
# Compression
$compress = 'gzip'; # one of false/gzip/bzip2/zip/compress/hardware
$compr_level = '4'; # compression level (1-9) (for gzip/bzip2/zip)

$device = '/dev/tape';        (this is linked to /dev/nht0

$blksize = '32';

$mt_blksize = "0";



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