FW: Trouble installing tape drive

Sat Jan 8 10:06:00 UTC 2005

Hi All,

Is there anyone who has the Sony SDX-520C running under Fedora Core 3? We
had the drive running under Redhat 9 but cannot get it to run under FC3. The
drive is in a Dual AMD MP board. Here's the output in the log files:

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Jan  8 09:11:43 DualServer kernel: hdc: SONY SDX-520C, ATAPI TAPE drive
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Jan  8 09:11:44 DualServer kernel: SCSI subsystem initialized
Jan  8 09:11:44 DualServer kernel: scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for
IDE ATAPI devices
Jan  8 09:11:44 DualServer kernel: hdc: status timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
Jan  8 09:11:44 DualServer kernel: hdc: status timeout: error=0x00
Jan  8 09:11:44 DualServer kernel: ide-scsi: Strange, packet command
initiated yet DRQ isn't asserted
Jan  8 09:11:44 DualServer kernel: ide-scsi: No active request in
idescsi_eh_reset
Jan  8 09:11:44 DualServer kernel: scsi: Device offlined - not ready after
error recovery: host 0 channel 0 id 0 lun 0
Jan  8 09:11:44 DualServer kernel: hdc: status timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
Jan  8 09:11:44 DualServer kernel: hdc: status timeout: error=0x00
Jan  8 09:11:44 DualServer kernel: ide-scsi: Strange, packet command
initiated yet DRQ isn't asserted
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