Hi everyone, I havent posted on here much, but I have been following most of the threads. Last week my tape drive died in my fedora 8 server, it is an IBM Ultrium LTO-3.
I bought a refurbished replacement of the drive, same model. I got it installed and the server is recognizing the drive. And fedora is recognizing the drive but when I run this command sudo /bin/mt -f /dev/st0 status I get this response: SCSI 2 tape drive: File number=-1, block number=-1, partition=0. Tape block size 0 bytes. Density code 0x0 (default). Soft error count since last status=0 General status bits on (10000): IM_REP_EN The hooks in the drive that pull the tape into the drive stay at the in position and dont move out to accept a tape.. I checked /proc/scsi/scsi and the drive is there and I checked dmesg and the drive is being attached to st0 the only thing I did notice in dmesg was this: Driver 'st' needs updating - please use bus_type methods Right now Im leaning to a bad refurbished drive, what does everyone else think? Any help is appreciated, thanks. Antoni Sousa _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Jul 7 - Patent Absurdity - The Movie Aug 4 - Samba Sep 1 - BOINC
