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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