Oh yes, I thought I said that. I did a simple (but I think effective) test
of tarring up three different things on the tape ( using the
non-rewind device and doing a fsf inbetween) and then untarring all three
successfully.
Admittedly I seem to get the followign error
/dev/st0: Input/output error
sometimes - seems like after not using the tape for a while, but it goes
away after certain commands (like mt -d /dev/st0 status). I'm really not
sure if this is an issue or not, but have had arkeia fail when the tape
was responding just fine - several time.
So I'm hoping someone with soem arkeia experience will lend a hand. I have
posted to the arkeia list, but have only gotten one reply.
thanks
charles
On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Bill Carlson wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Charles Galpin wrote:
>
> > Hi everyone
> >
> > I bought a Seagate TapeStor STT20000N-C. It's a internal SCSI drive that
> > does hardware compression. It uses 10/20gb tapes (TR-5 aka QIC 32200), and
> > is the only device off a adapatec 2930 card.
>
> > My problems:
> >
> > 1. I chose STD QIC for the device. I was very surprised to not see all the
> > different QIC types listed. Is this ok? If not, how do I add a new type?
> > 2. I chose QIC 25GB for the tape. there was no 10/20GB choice, and
> > couldn't find a way to add a new tape type. How do I do this?
> > 3. When i start a *real* interactive backup it says "drvie 'TRAVAN Drive'
> > is locked" repeatedly evety minute. When thi si occuring I can happily
> > access the tape with mt.
>
> I would suspect Arkeia as the problem before looking to the tape drive.
> Have you tried tarring something to the drive and restoring it? This is a
> good thing to do, that way you know the hardware is good before adding a
> complex software piece on top...
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