> I've been trying to get the Flexbackup package to run for some
> time now with
> no success. First my SCSI card doesn't load, so I go insmod
> aic7xxx to load
> the driver, this seems to work, but then when I try to run
> flexbackup -newtape, I get a rather long error message that more or less
> reads "st0: Error with sense data: Info fld=0x2f, Current
> st09:00: sense key
> Illegal Request". I have gotten essentially this same error with 4
> different drives, and 3 different scsi controllers.
>
> Dereck R. Bauer
> Impact Solutions
>
Dereck,
I have also tried some different SCSI tape drives (older models, 2GB or 4 GB
DAT) on different controllers (Adaptec 2940 = aic7xxx controller driver and
a Tekram U2W model) all with no problem. (Only problem is that I can't get
the Wangdat 3200 to write more than 2 GB, compressed it should be able up to
4 GB?).
One difference to your configuration is that the same controller is used
here for the system's HD so the controller's module is always started
automatically at system startup.
Have you tried to do some tape commands (i.e.: mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind) on
the console to see whether the tape drive would work/respond at that level?
Your error message above talks about 'st0'. Could it be that you (or
flexbackup) are using /dev/st0 rather than /dev/nst0?
This is what my /etc/flexbackup.conf shows:
# Device to backup to - non-rewinding version please!
#
# Examples:
# Linux SCSI: /dev/nst0 Linux IDE: /dev/nht0
# Linux ftape: /dev/nqft0 FreeBSD SCSI: /dev/nrsa0
#
# If a directory, archive to files in that directory rather than a device
#
$device = '/dev/nst0';
Just some ideas, maybe of help?
Regards,
Michael Doerner
