On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, Alan Dayley wrote: > On Friday 07 November 2003 10:46 pm, Bob Holtzman wrote: > > I just had a Seagate Tapestor 40Gb Travan drive installed in my > > I am not familiar with Travan drives BUT, let's see if my guesses might spur > your thoughts. > > > RH7.3 box. The drive is detected on /dev/ht0 which is correct. > > When I ran mt -f /dev/ht0 reten it returned an message aboutan I/O > > error and an unrecoverable error. When I tried to create an archive > > I don't know about this error. Do you have more information? Did the tape > activity light blink so you know it was hit with a command? The drive appeared to be working. The light was blinking after the command. > > ( I should have known better ) I got: > > > > [root@localhost root]# tar cvf /dev/ht0 home > > tar: home: Cannot stat: No such file or directory > > tar: /dev/ht0: Wrote only 0 of 10240 bytes > > tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now > > - From your command line prompt, "[root@localhost root]" I assume you were in > the /root directory. The command line that you issued requested the backup > of the /root/home directory. Does this directory exist? Did you mean to > backup the /home directory instead? Tried it both ways ( home and /home ) from the /root and / directories. >From the / cirectory I get: [root@localhost /]# tar cvf home /dev/ht0 tar: home: Cannot open: Is a directory tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now [root@localhost /]# tar cvf /home /dev/ht0 tar: /home: Cannot open: Is a directory tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now which really snows me. I can't understand why tar run as root can't open a directory. I've never had trouble with this command before. The messages log shows nothing pertaining to this. > > /var/log/messages showed: > > > > Nov 7 22:12:24 localhost su(pam_unix)[5745]: session opened for user root > > by holtzm(uid=500) > > Nov 7 22:13:06 localhost kernel: ide-tape: ht0: I/O error, pc = a, key = > > 5, asc = 22, ascq = 0 > > The key, asc and ascq values are response codes. In this case 5,22,0. I > believe they are actually hexidecimal values, at least they would be in the > SCSI world. A key value of 5 indicates an illegal request. The asc and ascq > are extended sense key codes indicating that the illegal request was an > illegal function. (Seagate has some pretty extensive drive documentation on > their support site. Go try them. These key code values are at: > http://www.seagate.com/support/kb/disc/scsi_sense_keys.html and the extended > key values are at: > http://www.seagate.com/support/kb/disc/scsi_sense_error12-13.html. Look > around there some more as there may be lots of information for your > particular drive. Maybe start here in the "Disc Knowledge Base" > http://www.seagate.com/support/kb/disc/index.html). I'll get on these as soon as I have some time. Many thanks for the pointers. -- Bob Holtzman "Your email is being read by hundreds of uptight agents who never saw the humor in Dr. Strangelove." Mark Russell