That old chesnut - Dump, QFA and DLT IV drives.

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That old chesnut - Dump, QFA and DLT IV drives.

by John Lewis :: Rate this Message:

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Hi,

I cannot get the subject to work, 90% of the time I get "error getting
tapepos". If I disable QFA it works reliably.

Having read a post on here from a couple of years ago Stelian suggested
enabling scsi2logical i.e. "mt -f /dev/nst0 stsetoptions scsi2logical".
However when I run this command I don't see any output in either dmesg,
syslog or messages, so I am not confident it has done anything.

To make sure I have scsi2logical enabled I have changed the relevant
option in st_option.h and recompiled the kernel. But QFA still doesn't
work.

I have 3 identical Quantum DLT-IV drives, have tried 3 different models
of SATA controller (Intel ICH 7, Sil3112 and Sil3124) and have sent one
drive back, so I am confident hardware is not a problem.

If somebody could tell me how to work around the problem whilst still
using QFA (I want to be able to restore single files quickly) I would
appreciate it.

Thanks,

John.


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Re: That old chesnut - Dump, QFA and DLT IV drives.

by Stelian Pop :: Rate this Message:

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Le jeudi 31 janvier 2008 à 11:49 +0000, John Lewis a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> I cannot get the subject to work, 90% of the time I get "error getting
> tapepos". If I disable QFA it works reliably.
[...]

I'm afraid you won't get much help here. Your problem looks like it is
driver related, so I think you should ask the developers of the st
driver for suggestions.

Stelian.
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Stelian Pop <stelian@...>


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