DAT not working.eml

[Rick Stevens]

Jason Pinkney wrote:

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>> my DAT tape drive used to work with my RHL system
>> but yesterday, I tried to read a tape and it got
>> messed up.  At first, it seemed fine.  It started
>> reading the tape in response to my command:
>> % tar tf /dev/st0 > listing
>> but it wouldn't finish and give me a prompt.  Inspection
>> of "listing" showed that it only made it a little ways
>> into the tar file (incomplete listing).
>> Since then, it has been impossible to communicate with.
>> Even after rebooting, the basic command
>> % mt -f /dev/st0 status
>> will either give no response and become a sleeping process
>> that can't be killed, or it will say:
>> /dev/st0: No such device or address
>>
>> Can you tell where the problem is?

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>> Rick Stevens <rstevens at vitalstream.com>
>>
>> Did you change anything?  Did you upgrade to FC1 or something along
>> those lines?
>>
>> The errors you show are SCSI errors.  The most common causes are bad
>> SCSI bus termination or SCSI controller problem.
>>
>> If the SCSI card is a PCI card, try shutting down, opening the box and
>> reseating the card (unscrew it, unplug it, plug it back in and screw
>> it down again).  You'd be amazed at how many problems that solves.
> 
> Rick,
> thanks for the suggestions.  The DAT drive is working
> again! (I think it also needed a cleaning.)

What else did you do to get it to work.  I'm needy and need closure!
:-)
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