F7: ide tape access

[Craig Goodyear]

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.

I have gotten the same results from a different machine booting from the 
Fedora 7 Live CD.

What needs to be done to get this tape drive working?  It has worked 
fine with all previous versions of Fedora Core.

Craig