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Hello all,
I have a dell poweredge 600SC that was originally
installed with Redhat 8. I downloaded fedora core 2 and performed an
upgrade to this system. Before the upgrade the IDE tape drive worked fine
with a SCSI emulator which comes compiled into the linux kernel by
default. After the upgrade I began to see the following
error:
root$ mt -f /dev/nst0 status
/dev/nst0: No such device or address I ran the diagnostics and found that the tape drive
is functioning properly. At length I looked at the grub.conf file and
found the following line:
kernel
/vmlinuz-2.6.5-1.358 ro root=LABEL=/ /dev/ht0=ide-scsi
and so I tried to access ht0. This worked, but a little different than before. Commands like status no longer give the same type of output, for example: Originally status would produce something like
this:
SCSI 2 tape drive:
File number=-1, block number=-1, partition=0. Tape block size 0 bytes. Density code 0x0 (default). Soft error count since last status=0 General status bits on (10000): IM_REP_EN Now status shows:
SCSI 2 tape drive:
File number=0, block number=0, partition=0. Tape block size 512 bytes. Density code 0x0 (default). Soft error count since last status=0 General status bits on (0): I'm not familiar with the details of this output
and notwithstanding my efforts on google I can't find a good explanation.
The tar command no longer functions correctly. Specifically I have a
script that issues "tar Pcf /dev/nst0 /first/dir" followed by "tar Prf /dev/nst0
/second/dir". After linking nst0 to nht0 (ln ./nht0 /dev/nst0), this
script runs without error, but only the "/second/dir" is stored on the
tape.
Is there some way to reinstall the tape? Is
this SCSI-IDE related? Any ideas or good reference material? Thanks
in advance!
Daniel |
