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 But from what i've found this is normal (!). When using flexbackup: flexbackup -test-tape-drive flexbackup version 1.2.1 (http://flexbackup.sourceforge.net) /etc/flexbackup.conf syntax OK |------------------------------------------------------------ | Checking /bin/sh on this machine... bash2 |------------------------------------------------------------ | Trying "mt defblksize" instead of "mt setblk" Error setting block size Neither of these commands worked: mt -f /dev/nst0 setblk 0 mt -f /dev/nst0 defblksize 0 Relevant info in the config file: --CONFIG-- /etc/flexbackup.conf $type = 'afio'; $device = '/dev/nst0'; $blksize = '0'; $mt_blksize = "0"; $pad_blocks = 'false'; $mt{'setblk'} = 'nop'; (I've tried all the blksize, mt_blksize settings, and also added/removed the $mt{'setblk'} options and no change to the above error message). As in the FAQ I tried out: mt -f /dev/nst0 setblk 32768 (mt: /dev/nst0: Input/output error) mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind mt -f /dev/nst0 erase find /etc -print | afio -o -z -v -b 32k - | dd ibs=32k obs=32k of=/dev/nst0 mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind dd ibs=32k obs=32k if=/dev/nst0 | afio -t -z -v -b 32k - Apart from the setblk command which failed, the rest worked perfectly, and doing the listing showed the full list of files from /etc as it should, so it appears the tape drive is working right. Any suggestions on how to get flexbackup working in this situation?? Thanks for any help! Andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ------------------------------------------------------- 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
