>... Other tools
>such as BRU and Tar seem perfectly happy with the non-rewinding
>feature of this device but amlabel remained unconvinced.
Those other tools don't rewind the tape between doing things. That's
historically (reportedly) been the problem -- the driver doesn't rewind
when asked to.
> Last night I re-compiled my kernel to include IDE-SCSI
>emulation ... Lo and Behold...it worked! ...
Great! Don't touch it!!! :-)
>in the process of working, it spit out this error to STDERR:
>
>st0: Error with sense data: [valid=0] Info fld=0x0, Current st09:00: sns = 70
> 5
>ASC=20 ASCQ= 0
>Raw sense data:0x70 0x00 0x05 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x0a 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00
>0x20 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00
>...can anyone identify what the above error could mean
By "it" you mean the kernel. Amanda doesn't output these errors. So if
you want more information, you'll have to go to the kernel driver folks.
In general, that's a SCSI Request Sense output buffer. I don't have
the documentation for your particular device, but a sense key of 5 is an
illegal request, and the ASC/ASCQ of 20/0 confirms that. So the kernel
driver told the drive to do something it didn't want to do.
The above log message does not include the CDB that was used, so we
can't tell what command was involved.
And, yes, I'd be worried about this driver if it was responsible for
my backups.
>... come up with an explanation as to why Amanda doesn't seem
>to like using my drive with native ATAPI support?
It's a kernel driver problem. Ask them why they cannot handle the
absolutely trivial sequences Amanda uses.
>Aaron Smith
John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
