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- From: peter@miller.cs.uwm.edu (Peter J Diaz de Leon)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sys5.r3
- Subject: ARCHIVE SCSI ST525 TAPE AND ISC UNIX 3.01 WONT WRITE
- Date: 7 Nov 1992 19:55:18 GMT
- Organization: University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
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- I recently bought a Archive ST525 SCSI tape drive and
- am running it on a DPT EISA SCSI controler under
- ISC UNIX SYS 5 R3 V:3.0.1
-
- The tape drive has been set for SCSI ID 2.
- I am able to use the "mt" command to retension
- and rewind and erase the tape in the drive.
- The mt command with the "-v" option gives me
- the following:
-
- Found scsi tape:
- speed = 0
- flags = 0x2118
- spare = 0
- media = 0
- recsiz = 512
-
- Rewind status 0
-
- However, when I try to write out to the tape
- using tar or cpio I get:
-
- I/O error on write(), errno 5, I/O error
-
- I get a very similar message if I try to read of
- a tape made on another machine.
-
- By the way the tape in the tape drive is a
- DC6150. I have not had a chance to go and buy
- 6525 tapes yet. Could this be the problem?
- The vendor I bought the tape drive says no.
-
- I need to get this running since I have not backed
- up my system in 3 weeks when my old tape drive
- died.
-
- Thanks
- Peter
- (peter@miller.cs.uwm.edu)
-
-