[flexbackup-help] flexbackup -test-tape-drive generates errors

[Rodney D. Myers]

I've been attempting to get my "old" exabyte 8500 8mm tape drive
installed, and working again.

I have /dev/tape symlinked to /dev/st0,and both in the tape group;

ls -la /dev/tape
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     tape            8 Jun 25 14:42 /dev/tape -> /dev/st0
ls -la /dev/st0
crw-rw-rw-    1 root     tape       9,   0 Mar 23 13:48 /dev/st0

i've tried 4 different tapes in the machine to try and get things
working.

Either running as "user" or "sudo;

mt -f /dev/tape setblk 32768 -> works fine
mt -f /dev/tape rewind       -> works fine
mt -f /dev/tape erase        -> works fine

find /home/rodney/ -print | afio -o -z -v -b 32k - | dd ibs=32k obs=32k of=/dev/tape

it'll work, and fill up the tape, as advertised.

Yet when I run "flexbackup -test-tape-drive" it'll start rewinding,
etc, and it'll start writing to the tape, and then 5 - 10 minutes into
it, I get these errors in /var/log/messages; 

Jun 29 09:57:03 riverside kernel: hdc: tray open
Jun 29 09:57:03 riverside kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev hdc, sector 0
Jun 29 09:57:03 riverside kernel: hdc: tray open
Jun 29 09:57:03 riverside kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev hdc, sector 4
Jun 29 09:57:03 riverside kernel: hdc: tray open
Jun 29 09:57:03 riverside kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev hdc, sector 8
Jun 29 09:57:03 riverside kernel: hdc: tray open
Jun 29 09:57:03 riverside kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev hdc, sector 12
Jun 29 09:57:03 riverside kernel: hdc: tray open
Jun 29 09:57:03 riverside kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev hdc, sector 16
Jun 29 09:57:03 riverside kernel: hdc: tray open
Jun 29 09:57:03 riverside kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev hdc, sector 20


which is my cdrom, and it shouldn't be backing anything up from that
device. 

this will "fill" up a good portion of the log file. The shell will
come back, but the tape looks like it continues to the end of the
tape, and then after 30 or 40 minutes, it will be reset.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

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