[wplug] IDE tape drive problem

[Embery, Nathan]

I deal with Seagate tape drives all day long in a solaris environment, but
I've never touched them on linux, so this is really nothing more than a semi
educated guess...

Given that, on Solaris I had to add the following two lines to my st.conf
file:

"SEAGATE ULTRIUM06242-XXX","Seagate LTO","SEAGATE_LTO";
SEAGATE_LTO = 1,0x36,0,0x19639,4,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,1;

Again, I've never even been near this stuff on Linux, so I could be totally
leading you in the wrong direction ;-) Esp considering st translates to
'scsi tape'

In any case, you probably need something similar on Linux. check the
www.certance.com website for the docs and what the actual string needs to be
and that should get you going.

Nate



-----Original Message-----
From: duncanhutty at comcast.net [mailto:duncanhutty at comcast.net] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 4:53 PM
To: wplug at wplug.org
Subject: [wplug] IDE tape drive problem

I have an IDE tape drive problem.

Any tape operation I've tried, including mt -f /dev/nst0 status, generates
the following on console: 

st0: Error with sense data: Current st09:00: sense key Illegal Request
Additional sense indicates Invalid command operation code

I'm having a hard time even parsing that output, let alone understanding it
and I'm not sure really where to look.

This is the output from the status operation, indicating that the drive is
at least sort of seen:
SCSI 2 tape drive:
File number=0, block number=0, partition=0.
Tape block size 512 bytes. Density code 0x45 (QIC-3095-MC (TR-4)).
Soft error count since last status=0
General status bits on (41010000):
 BOT ONLINE IM_REP_EN

Btw, it's a Seagate Tape Drive STT8000A on RedHat8
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