[SLUG] Problems with SCSI tape drive

2005-07-14 Thread Michael Kraus
G'day... I've got a tape drive, when I issue it a command via mt, mt never exits and the bash prompt is never returned. (I have now started initialising it with stinit, not sure if this is a necessary step or not but still no success.) The SCSI bus is a LSI Logic 53c1030 PCI-X Fusion MPT Dual

Re: [SLUG] Problems with SCSI tape drive

2005-07-14 Thread Ben Donohue
is it the only device on the SCSI bus? simplify the problem and remove everything else and try again. Ben Michael Kraus wrote: G'day... I've got a tape drive, when I issue it a command via mt, mt never exits and the bash prompt is never returned. (I have now started initialising it with

Re: [SLUG] Problems with SCSI tape drive

2005-07-14 Thread Mike
It's the only device on the SCSI bus. Thanks for the help. If you have any more, feel free. :) Mike On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 20:36 +1000, Ben Donohue wrote: is it the only device on the SCSI bus? simplify the problem and remove everything else and try again. Ben -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's

Re: [SLUG] Problems with SCSI tape drive

2005-07-14 Thread John Clarke
On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 09:19:39 +1000, Mike wrote: It's the only device on the SCSI bus. Thanks for the help. If you have any more, feel free. :) Is the bus properly terminated? Cheers, John -- Ah, back when I'd sooner pee on a keyboard than type on it. After spending enough time as a

Re: [SLUG] Problems with SCSI tape drive

2005-07-14 Thread scott
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 14/07/2005 09:19:39 PM: It's the only device on the SCSI bus. Thanks for the help. If you have any more, feel free. :) Have you checked the logs to see if there is any errors? Is the tape or the card terminated? whats the scsi id's does the tape come before the