Jason,
this might not help you but I'm mailing this to let you (and others) know
your're not alone...
I have a Sony SDT-7000. I purchased it in an external box to be attached to
my Adaptec 2940 external connector. I had the exact same problems as you
describe (tape writes ok but failes on reads). I know of at least another
guy (he tried with two SDT-7000's) with the same problems.
After months of trying etc. I called Sony support here in Germany - they
were not very helpful ("We do not support Linux" is what the guy told me)
but in the end they pointed me to the company doing the harware
support/maintenance for Sony DAT drives here in Germany - I send the drive
in for inspection - no use (altough it was free of charge) - the "UNIX
Installation Guide" Sony provides on their website in PDF-Format did also
not help - I also tried the "special" st-driver that's available for Sony
tape drives - no use.
After almost a year of struggling with the drive I decided to put it into
the cabinet of my box to the end of my internal SCSI chain (the tape
terminates the bus) - and guess what:
THAT SOLVED MY PROBLEM!!! Now the drive works reliable and fast, no
problems at all!
It looks to me that:
o Sony DAT tapes are very picky regarding SCSI bus signals/cabling
o Sony gives a s**t about Linux support
o next time I probably buy HP
Mit freundlichen Gruessen / best regards
Michael Kwasigroch
FaxPlus/Open Development
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