Re: [expert] ide tape, Linux-Mandrake 7.1 problems. . .

[Norvell Spearman]

Yes, I did.  Someone told me about the ide-scsi module.  I did a
``insmod ide-scsi'' as root and---voila!---Linux now thinks I have a
SCSI tape drive at /dev/st0.  I then added ``ide-scsi'' to the
/etc/modules file, so the module would get loaded automatically at next
startup.  After doing this, my tape drive has worked flawlessly.  I
think I sent an e-mail to the Mandrake wish-list address, so hopefully
this won't be a problem in future distributions.

Hope this helps. . .

Marc Bourget wrote:
 
 Did you manage to get your HP colorado ide-tape working?
 
 I have exactly the same problem with my colorado 5gig. It worked fine
 with Mandrake 7.0. I'm kinnda stuck with my data on the tape and I
 cannot extract it.
 
 Hope you found a solution for my problem.
 
 --
 _
 Marc Bourget
 
---Norvell Spearman
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``Trouble is my business.''
  ---Philip Marlowe

[expert] ide tape, Linux-Mandrake 7.1 problems. . .

[Norvell Spearman]

I've already posted once, but thought I'd try again after more people
have installed 7.1. . .

Before wiping out my 7.0 installation, I backed up my important data to
my 8GB HP Colorado internal IDE tape drive.  I backed up with `tar czvpf
/dev/ht0 /etc /home /root' and tested the backup with `tar xzvpf
/dev/ht0' (in a directory other than /).  The backup and restore
returned no errors whatsoever.  When I've backed up before with taper
and Mandrake 7.0, my tape drive worked flawlessly then as well.

Anyway, after wiping out 7.0 and installing 7.1, I can write to my tape,
but not read from it.  I'll include the error messages below.  I've
tried backing up and restoring a few files to/from /dev/fd0 with no
problems, so I guess it's safe to say the problem is not with tar or
gzip.

I'd greatly appreciate any help with this.

---Norvell Spearman
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[root@localhost blah]# tar xzvpf /dev/ht0
tar (grandchild): /dev/ht0: Cannot read: Input/output error
tar (grandchild): At beginning of tape, quitting now
tar (grandchild): Error is not recoverable: exiting now

gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
[root@localhost blah]# tar xzvpf /dev/nht0
tar (grandchild): /dev/nht0: Cannot read: Input/output error
tar (grandchild): At beginning of tape, quitting now
tar (grandchild): Error is not recoverable: exiting now

gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
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Below is from /var/log/messages:

Jun 15 18:55:18 localhost kernel: ide-tape: hdd - ht0: HP COLORADO 8GB
rev 2.05
Jun 15 18:55:18 localhost kernel: ide-tape: hdd: overriding
capabilities-speed (assuming 650KB/sec)
Jun 15 18:55:18 localhost kernel: ide-tape: hdd: overriding
capabilities-max_speed (assuming 650KB/sec)
Jun 15 18:55:18 localhost kernel: ide-tape: hdd - ht0: 650KBps,
16*32kB buffer, 6336kB pipeline, 100ms tDSC
Jun 15 18:55:18 localhost kernel: ide-tape: ht0: I/O error, pc = 10, key
=  7, asc = 27, ascq =  0
Jun 15 18:55:18 localhost kernel: ide-tape: ht0: I/O error, pc = 10, key
=  7, asc = 27, ascq =  0
Jun 15 18:55:18 localhost kernel: ide-tape: ht0: I/O error, pc = 1e, key
=  5, asc = 20, ascq =  0
Jun 15 18:55:18 localhost kernel: ide-tape: ht0: I/O error, pc =  8, key
=  5, asc = 2c, ascq =  0
Jun 15 18:55:18 localhost kernel: ide-tape: ht0: I/O error, pc = 1e, key
=  5, asc = 20, ascq =  0
Jun 15 18:55:24 localhost kernel: ide-tape: ht0: I/O error, pc = 10, key
=  7, asc = 27, ascq =  0
Jun 15 18:55:24 localhost kernel: ide-tape: ht0: I/O error, pc = 10, key
=  7, asc = 27, ascq =  0
Jun 15 18:55:24 localhost kernel: ide-tape: ht0: I/O error, pc = 1e, key
=  5, asc = 20, ascq =  0
Jun 15 18:55:24 localhost kernel: ide-tape: ht0: I/O error, pc =  8, key
=  5, asc = 2c, ascq =  0
Jun 15 18:55:24 localhost kernel: ide-tape: ht0: I/O error, pc = 1e, key
=  5, asc = 20, ascq =  0