Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 31 Oct 2001 12:58:40 +0000 | From | Richard Kettlewell <> | Subject | Re: problem with ide-scsi and IDE tape drive |
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Kai Makisara writes:
> Looking at your log everything seems to work perfectly from the > point of view of the drivers. The problem is that the first write > command (from the log cmd: a 1 0 0 3c 0 Len: 30720) is refused by > your drive (the sense key Illegal Request). The command looks OK > (i.e., it is a write of 60 512 byte blocks in fixed block mode).
OK...
> Does your drive only accept writes from the beginning of the tape > (there are drives that have this limitation)?
The manual doesn't mention any such limitation, but it's not very comprehensive. Suggestions how I can find out whether the drive is supposed to support arbitrarily positioned writes or not would be welcome.
> In this case the problem is that you rewind and space forward > between the two tar commands. You don't have to rewind between the > commands. The same result is obtained if you just use two > consecutive tar commands (and this means that writing only starts > from the beginning of the tape, from the drive's point of view).
This points to an acceptable workaround.
Thanks for your help!
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