seagate tr5

[william_holt at speakeasy.net (Bill Holt)]

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> From: jbk [mailto:jbk at mail2.gis.net]
> Sent: Friday, January 9, 2004 03:12 AM
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> Subject: Re: seagate tr5
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> jbk wrote:
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> > Bill Holt wrote:
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> > > Hello,
> > > I can't seem to get my rh9 to recognize my STT320000a tape drive (IDE).
> > > Can anybody point me in the right direction, I'm new with tape drives, thanks in advance.
> > > Bill
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> > Are you using the default kernel or did you roll your own?  I have a seagate STT28000N ide
> > drive. I can't remember if I had to compile drivers for it or download them from seagate. I
> > will see what modules are loaded when I ssh the server later.
> >
> > til next
> >     jim
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> What do you get when you type mt -f  /dev/nht0 status &
> What are your boot messages?
> How are the jumpers set on the tape drive? Master, slave, or CS?
>  til next
>     jim
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Was a slave sharing with cdrom, I changed it to master by itself.
Don't know what to make of this...
I have no tape in, but that shouldn't matter, right?

Jan  8 22:36:07 mail kernel: ide-tape: hdc <-> ht0: Seagaue! SUT30101A! ! ! ! rev 8A51
Jan  8 22:36:07 mail kernel: ide-tape: hdc <-> ht0: 1000KBps, 5*54kB buffer, 9738kB pipeline, 110ms tDSC, DMA
Jan  8 22:36:07 mail kernel: ide-tape: ht0: I/O error, pc = 34, key =  2, asc =
3a, ascq =  0
Jan  8 22:36:07 mail kernel: ide-tape: ht0: I/O error, pc =  1, key =  2, asc =
3a, ascq =  1
Jan  8 22:36:07 mail kernel: ide-tape: ht0: I/O error, pc =  0, key =  2, asc =
3a, ascq =  1
Jan  8 22:36:07 mail kernel: ide-tape: ht0: drive not ready