Stephen Broadbridge wrote: > > Hi All > > I cannot get my HP Travan T4000S Scsi tape drive to work. I have gathered > all the information I can find about the problem into the rest of this email. > Am I missing something obvious? Thanks in anticipation of any assistance > given. > > This is what happens when I try to access my tape drive. I get the same sort > of > result when I try to access /dev/st0. > # mt -f /dev/nst0 status > mt: /dev/nst0: Input/output error > I'd guess you really are having a hardware problem. Check SCSI ID, termination, etc. It could even be that the drive is bad.
<RANT alt="Sorry, I know this is unhelpful"> I'm starting to have a low opinion of these Travan SCSI drives. I have one, an AIWA, in a server that occasionally makes me reboot (starts getting above error) for no known reason, after fairly heavy-duty backup use for several weeks or so; and one at home, a Seagate, that now eventually write-fails on any tape I throw at it. I have purchased one more of these at Ebay, and if I have problems with it in the near future, I'll start using DAT for my backup needs, high drive cost or no. </RANT>