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- From: cowboy@trans.csuohio.edu (Joe Rosenfeld)
- Subject: Re: Using tar with a SCSI DAT drive
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- George Wu (grw@oahu.cs.ucla.edu) wrote:
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- : I recently installed an Archive Python SCSI DAT drive on my system
- : (NeXTStation Mono running NS 2.1) for backup purposes. However, I
- : have been unable to use tar on the drive. I always get an 'I/O error'
- : when I run tar and the associated SCSI error is as follows.
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- : st: cmd = 0x15 sr_io_status = 2H
- : Sense key = 0x5 Sense Code = 0x1a
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- : According to scsireg.h the SCSI command causing the problem is MODE
- : SELECT and the sense key (0x5) indicates invalid request. Does anyone
- : know the solution to this problem ? Any help is appreciated.
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- : George Wu
-
- Well, it would have helped if you indicated your command line for tarring.
- I have the same drive, and I can tar, no problems at all, with this comman
- line syntax (from root /):
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- tar -xvf /dev/rst0 *
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- I usually use gnutar with this syntax:
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- gnutar -xvpf /dev/rst0 *
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- Give it a try. My current DAT scsi id is "6"
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- | Joe Rosenfeld cowboy@trans.csuohio.edu
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