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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hello all,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have a dell poweredge 600SC that was originally
installed with Redhat 8. I downloaded fedora core 2 and performed an
upgrade to this system. Before the upgrade the IDE tape drive worked fine
with a SCSI emulator which comes compiled into the linux kernel by
default. After the upgrade I began to see the following
error:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>root$ mt -f /dev/nst0 status<BR>/dev/nst0: No such
device or address<BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I ran the diagnostics and found that the tape drive
is functioning properly. At length I looked at the grub.conf file and
found the following line:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> kernel
/vmlinuz-2.6.5-1.358 ro root=LABEL=/ /dev/ht0=ide-scsi<BR>and so I tried to
access ht0. This worked, but a little different than before.
Commands like status no longer give the same type of output, for
example:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Originally status would produce something like
this:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> SCSI 2 tape drive:<BR> File number=-1,
block number=-1, partition=0.<BR> Tape block size 0 bytes. Density code 0x0
(default).<BR> Soft error count since last status=0<BR> General status
bits on (10000):<BR> IM_REP_EN<BR></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Now status shows:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> SCSI 2 tape drive:<BR> File number=0,
block number=0, partition=0.<BR> Tape block size 512 bytes. Density code
0x0 (default).<BR> Soft error count since last status=0<BR> General
status bits on (0):</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> </DIV></FONT>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'm not familiar with the details of this output
and notwithstanding my efforts on google I can't find a good explanation.
The tar command no longer functions correctly. Specifically I have a
script that issues "tar Pcf /dev/nst0 /first/dir" followed by "tar Prf /dev/nst0
/second/dir". After linking nst0 to nht0 (ln ./nht0 /dev/nst0), this
script runs without error, but only the "/second/dir" is stored on the
tape.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Is there some way to reinstall the tape? Is
this SCSI-IDE related? Any ideas or good reference material? Thanks
in advance!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Daniel</DIV></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>