(forgot to CC: this to the list when i replied to Jens, and decided to add another paragraph) I just tried my Seagate drive, and i can read my tapes in it. If i swap over to the HP, i can't read the tapes. I'll look today, whether the Seagate replies with a bunch of those I/O Errors. It's not like i'm doing anything but working on making this damn tape drive work =) Considering the HP 7/14 gig format is already a proprietory format(<sarcasm> THANKS HP! </sarcasm>), it wouldn't surprise me if something else is non standard. It's weird that i can read 7/14 gig tapes in the 10/20 Seagate though. Nice of Seagate to include support for someone else's mistake =) Jens Axboe wrote: > On Thu, Nov 02 2000, Mike Dresser wrote: > > I'm currently running 2.4.0test10, running backups onto an IDE HP 7/14 > > gb drive. Using tar -cpvf /dev/ht0 myfiles backs up fine, no errors. > > > > But.. > > > > promise:~# tar -tf /dev/ht0 > > tar: /dev/ht0: Cannot read: Input/output error > > tar: At beginning of tape, quitting now > > tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now > > > > and from dmesg: > > ide-tape: ht0: I/O error, pc = 1e, key = 5, asc = 20, ascq = 0 > > ide-tape: ht0: I/O error, pc = 8, key = 5, asc = 2c, ascq = 0 > > ide-tape: ht0: I/O error, pc = 1e, key = 5, asc = 20, ascq = 0 > > > > (normal, i get those cause of the lock drive/unlock drive, which the > > drive doesn't support) > > Interesting, and this is test10? I submitted a patch for test10 to > not attempt prevent-removal commands in the ide-tape drives that > do not support it. If this is indeed test10, that would mean that > the HP drive misreports that capability. It'd be nice to know. > > -- > * Jens Axboe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
