Gene, Thanks for the help. I'm going to fool around with it a bit more. You'll be hearing from me if I have any problems. :-) Thanks, ERS
At 01:56 PM 3/16/2005, you wrote:
On Wednesday 16 March 2005 10:25, Eric Shibata wrote: >Hi Gene, >Do you mean interrupts? >When I look at my /proc/interrupts I know I have other things there > with my scsi adapter from BusLogic. > >-------------------------------------------------------------------- >---------------------------------------------- CPU0 > 0: 70937522 XT-PIC timer > 1: 200 XT-PIC i8042 > 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade > 8: 1 XT-PIC rtc > 11: 368831 XT-PIC BusLogic BT-930, uhci_hcd, eth0 > 12: 4778 XT-PIC i8042 > 14: 90206 XT-PIC ide0 > 15: 212674 XT-PIC ide1 >NMI: 0 >ERR: 0 >----------------------------------------------------------- >Let's just say it was a cabling problem. When I insert the tape, it > makes sound like it's rewind the tape. Would it be able to do that?
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plug that one back in and unplug the other and recheck, then the chances are you are pretty good and have other hardware problems. No, or very little voltage when one end of the cable is unplugged means the device the cable is still plugged into isn't terminated and this must be fixed.
If its only 2.65 to 2.75, its going to be a problem child occasionally. Below 2.5 and its likely its not going to work until the proper voltage is re-established.
I haven't dealt with the logic zero noise margin considerations because its a zero if the line is pulled down to less than .6 volts, and I've not seen the scsi bus driver yet that couldn't pull the line to well below 25 millivolts, hence its generally not a problem. If it can't, the driver chip is toasted, go get someone who knows which end of a soldering iron gets hot. I do, but I've yet to have to replace one because of that.
Now, I hope I've helped to clarify this thing called a 'scsi bus'.
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> This is my first time setting up a tape drive, it didn't sound like > it should be this difficult. >Thanks, >ERS > >On Tuesday 15 March 2005 12:14, Eric Shibata wrote: > >HELP! > >I can't even get the status. No matter what I do I get the > > following error. > > > >/dev/tape: Input/output error > >/dev/st0: Input/output error > > > >Tape drive: HP SureStore T4i > > > >ERS > >That sounds a bit like cabling and or termination problems.
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