On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 09:18:36 -0000 (GMT) "Andy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi All, > I've done quite a few searches and read previous posts but none seem to > help out my situation. > > I'm using the IDE SCSI emulation (Tape drive is Seagate Model: > STT20000A) dmesg shows the tape driver loads, identifies the unit and > then spits out: st: Version 20030403, bufsize 32768, max init. bufs 4, > s/g segs 16 Attached scsi tape st0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 > st0: Error with sense data: Current st09:00: sense key Illegal Request > Additional sense indicates Invalid command operation code > Hi: I use the same tape drive. Don't use SCSI, use hd?=ide-tape in your boot package. Then set the blksize to 32k, and then use the -test-tape-drive option to verify that it works. Much faster to test. This drive has one problem: if the write operation fails, you usually have to power-cycle the machine (ugh) to restore the drive to sanity. If you can fix that one, please let me know how. The relevant bits from my config file are: $type = 'afio'; # Compression $compress = 'gzip'; # one of false/gzip/bzip2/zip/compress/hardware $compr_level = '4'; # compression level (1-9) (for gzip/bzip2/zip) $device = '/dev/tape'; (this is linked to /dev/nht0 $blksize = '32'; $mt_blksize = "0"; -------------------------------------------------------------------------- PLEASE NOTE: NEW EMAIL ADDRESS, please change your nicknames, thanks. Roger Pryor P. Eng. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pryor and Pryor Inc. Telephone: (+1) 604-685-2621 602 - 1230 Comox Street, Internet: http://www.pryor-and-pryor.com Vancouver, B.C., V6E 1K7, Canada ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ flexbackup-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flexbackup-help
