On 28/12/2007, at 12:21 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Hi, all.

I've finally found some time to try and get a tape drive - Seagate STT3401A (now
Certance/Quantum) - working on a Dell SC440.

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mt rewind

will log this (/var/log/messages):

/bsd: wdc_atapi_intr: warning: reading only 255 of 256 bytes

Or:

tar cvf /dev/nrst0 AFile.zip

Shows this on the console:

AFile.zip
tar: Failed write to archive volume: 1: Invalid argument
tar: Waiting for tape drive close to complete...done.

And this in /var/log/messages:

last message repeated 2 times
/bsd: st0(atapiscsi1:0:0): Check Condition (error 0x70) on opcode 0xa
/bsd:     SENSE KEY: Illegal Request
/bsd:      ASC/ASCQ: Illegal Function (Should 20 00, 24 00, or 26 00)


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Can anyone help? I've had an offlist reply that makes it seem that my tape commands are OK.

I'll take the tape drive out of this box and try it on another machine / another OS, but was hoping someone would recognise this tape drive (supplied by Dell with the machine) or give me some pointers as to what the underlying problem might be (is it atapiscsi?)

Thanks.

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