F7: ide tape access

Craig Goodyear cjhs22a at swbell.net
Thu Jun 7 20:01:36 UTC 2007


Craig Goodyear wrote:
> I have done a clean install of Fedora 7.  I am not able to access the 
> ide tape drive.  The following is logged to /var/log/messages while 
> booting:
> 
> Jun  6 16:03:59 itox kernel: scsi 1:0:1:0: Sequential-Access Seagate 
> STT8000A         5.51 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
> Jun  6 16:03:59 itox kernel: st 1:0:1:0: Attached scsi tape st0
> Jun  6 16:03:59 itox kernel: st 1:0:1:0: st0: try direct i/o: yes 
> (alignment 512 B)
> 
> When trying to access the tape drive the following error appears in the 
> terminal:
> 
> /dev/nst0: Input/output error
> 
> With the following logged in /var/log/messages:
> 
> Jun  6 17:01:59 itox kernel: st0: Error 40000 (sugg. bt 0x0, driver bt 
> 0x0, host bt 0x4).
> 
> The same result is obtained with or without selinux enabled.
> 
> What needs to be done to get this tape drive working?  It has worked 
> fine with all previous versions of Fedora Core.
> 

Let me re-phase the question.

Has anyone been able to get an IDE tape drive to work with Fedora 7 ?




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