YDL 2.3 & PM8550 with DAT Drive

[Carlos Randolph]

----- Original Message -----
From: "William Carty" <admin@thinktankdecoy.com>
To: <yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 27, 2002 6:02 PM
Subject: RE: YDL 2.3 & PM8550 with DAT Drive


>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: yellowdog-general-admin@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> > [mailto:yellowdog-general-admin@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com]On Behalf
> > Of Carlos Randolph
> > Sent: Sunday, October 27, 2002 6:17 PM
> > To: YDL-General-List
> > Subject: YDL 2.3 & PM8550 with DAT Drive
> >
> >
> > I recently purchased a PM8550 Server with the internal DAT drive
> > (HP DDS-2).
> > I also purchase, yep purchased, YDL 2.3 and did an installation setup
for
> > Internet/Intranet server.
> >
> > I checked the boot up logs and the Tape drive is recognized as /dev/st0.
> >
> > I used apt-get to install "mt-st" for the MT commands.
> >
> > I can do an "mt rewind" to rewind the tape.
> > I can do an "mt tell" to see where I am at on the tape.
> >
> > I cannot get the tape to either erase or accept data from tar
> > commands.  It
> > keeps error out with "input/output error".
> >
> > Any hints or suggestions as to where I should look for help?
> >
> > BTW:  These  are brand new tapes as well and I have tried two of them.
> >
> > CR
>
>
> What does "mt -f /dev/st0 stat" tell you?
>
> You might try writing a little data to the tape using dd.  Something along
> the lines of "dd if=/var/log of=/dev/st0".
>
> Also, what is the exact tar command you are trying to use to write to
tape?
>
> Will
>
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The MV Stat command gives:
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SCSI 2 tape drive:
File number=0, block number=0, partition=0.
Tape block size 0 bytes. Density code 0x24 (DDS-2).
Soft error count since last status=0
General status bits on (41010000):
 BOT ONLINE IM_REP_EN
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I tried doing a "mt -f /dev/tape erase"     I have /dev/tape linked to
/dev/st0.
I tried doing a "tar -cvf /dev/tape /ftp"    /ftp is a directory off of root
with my FTP site

Both of these return the input/output error.

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I tried the following:  "dd -f suexec.html of=/dev/st0"   suexec.html is a
22984 byte file

I got the following:

44+1 records in
44+1 records out
dd: closing output file `/dev/st0`: Input/output error

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CR