One thing I should have checked, but didn't is the messages file. it outputs:
Jan 15 21:07:01 mail kernel: (scsi0) <Adaptec AIC-7850 SCSI host adapter> found at PCI 0/9/0 Jan 15 21:07:01 mail kernel: (scsi0) Narrow Channel, SCSI ID=7, 3/255 SCBs Jan 15 21:07:01 mail kernel: (scsi0) Downloading sequencer code... 415 instructions downloaded Jan 15 21:07:01 mail kernel: scsi0 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x (EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI) 5.2.4/5.2.0 Jan 15 21:07:01 mail kernel: <Adaptec AIC-7850 SCSI host adapter> Jan 15 21:07:05 mail kernel: Vendor: SONY Model: SDT-9000 Rev: 0400 Jan 15 21:07:05 mail kernel: Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Jan 15 21:07:05 mail kernel: st: bufsize 32768, wrt 30720, max init. buffers 4, s/g segs 16. Jan 15 21:07:05 mail kernel: Attached scsi tape st0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Jan 15 21:07:05 mail kernel: (scsi0:0:0:0) Synchronous at 10.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 15. Jan 15 21:07:55 mail kernel: st0: Block limits 1 - 16777215 bytes. Jan 15 22:05:19 mail kernel: st0: Error with sense data: [valid=0] Info fld=0x0, Deferred st09:00: sense key Hardware Error Jan 15 22:05:19 mail kernel: Additional sense indicates Internal target failure Jan 15 22:05:19 mail kernel: st0: Error with sense data: [valid=0] Info fld=0x0, Current st09:00: sense key Hardware Error Jan 15 22:05:19 mail kernel: Additional sense indicates Internal target failure Jan 15 22:20:00 mail kernel: scsi : 0 hosts left. Jan 15 22:20:00 mail kernel: st: Unloaded. >From what I can find it seems to be a hardware problem. I will see if I can get a new drive and what the results are. Thanks for all suggestions. Regards, Scott -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
