Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 29 Nov 2000 11:46:25 -0500 | From | Mike Dresser <> | Subject | Re: 2.4 test10 error reading from HP colorado 7/14 Gb tape |
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I reported this a few weeks ago or so, it seems that HP 7/14's are not exactly standard. First is the proprietory tape size. Second is that the drive doesn't support locking the tape in, but reports it as possible. At least, that's what i gather from Jens's posting.
To be honest, I'm not sure the drives are worth fixing <grin> Unreliable media, unreliable tape drives. I've got two dead out of 10, in under a year. And half a dozen tapes or so. Plus, under 2.2.17+ide, the tape drive wouldn't restore tapes. Something weird about the tape drive again. Had to boot up under plain 2.2.17 to read my tapes.
Eckhard Jokisch wrote:
> > > > # tar -tvf /dev/ht0 > > ide-tape: ht0: I/O error, pc = 8, key = 5, asc = 2c, ascq = 0 > > > > A search on deja.com shows that I am not the only one to have > > experienced this and that it did not occur with previous versions of > > ide-tape.c. The same error occurs with a non-modular kernel build. > > > I experience the same with OnStream DI30 - but these errors occure in 2.2.17 as > well. In my oppinion they show up in fewer cases with 2.4-test10. > The error is not quite"stable" because it occures on different tape positions > (filenames) when I retension the tape three aor four times befor writing to it. > > I checked the tapes on a Windows machine and they seem to be o.k.. > > Eckhard Jokisch > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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