[COLUG] SCSI tape drive problem

[Dave Maxwell]

On Tuesday 03 February 2004 09:07 pm, Peter King wrote:

> The drives are correctly detected by the BIOS and on boot, and, as you
> can see from the above, the st.(k)o module loads without any difficulty.
> Apparently there is a "medium error" -- I suppose an error in the tape --
> detected by the kernel. And there could be. But the problem shows up on
> many different tapes, including brand-new ones (from two different manu-
> facturers).
>
> The symptoms are that the tape drives grind for a bit and then say that
> there is a nonrecoverable error, so 0 bytes have been written. This happens
> even when testing as root, so it shouldn't be a permissions problem.
>
> So what could the cause be?

Hmm, dirty or worn heads?

Dave

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