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11-23-2003 11:59 PM
11-23-2003 11:59 PM
The tape drive is power off
/dev/tape: No medium found
mt: The device is offline (not powered on, no tape ?).
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11-24-2003 12:10 AM
11-24-2003 12:10 AM
Re: The tape drive is power off
kernel: st0: Write not multiple of tape block size.
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11-24-2003 12:30 AM
11-24-2003 12:30 AM
Re: The tape drive is power off
ln -s /dev/st0 /dev/tape
or
ln -s /dev/nst0 /dev/tape (no rewind)
Best regards...
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11-24-2003 12:59 AM
11-24-2003 12:59 AM
Re: The tape drive is power off
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11-24-2003 10:41 AM
11-24-2003 10:41 AM
Re: The tape drive is power off
Whether you can see it there or not depends on two thigns. One is that the device is seen at all (look in /proc/scsi/scsi), and the second is whether the 'st' module is installed (or compiled in).
Use 'lsmod' to see if the 'st' module is installed. If not, 'modprobe st' to install it.
If you've done both of these, and you have a device called '/dev/st0', then use 'mt -f /dev/st0 status' to see if you get a response from the tape.
You've not said if the tape is internal or external by the way. In any case, it might just be a loose cable.
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11-24-2003 04:41 PM
11-24-2003 04:41 PM
Re: The tape drive is power off
Run the tar command.
see if any lights light up.
If not, check the power connection, most of them will blink when there is a write attempt.
This could be as simple as the write protect tab on the tape.
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11-24-2003 10:37 PM
11-24-2003 10:37 PM
Re: The tape drive is power off
I've been down this road before (ref.:http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=198605) with no luck. Not to
reduce your hopes though.
*) what's in your proc-directory
(cat /proc/scsi/scsi) You should see if the kernel has recognised the device there.
*) You might also want to check that there has'nt been a change in your /etc/modules.conf.
*) Did the new backup software change something with the dev-files? It should look like something soimilar to this.
$ ls -la /dev/st0*
crw-rw-rw- 1 root disk 9, 0 Mar 17 2003 /dev/st0
*) I guess you've tried the dd-command? No? what about
dd if=/dev/st0 bs=256k count=1 of=/tmp/test
That's basically what I can think of at the moment. Alas I didn't get my HP1529 to work. Hope you're more successful.
Regards,
Runar Jørgens
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11-25-2003 01:21 AM
11-25-2003 01:21 AM
Re: The tape drive is power off
The scsitools collection contains a tool to list the attached devices. It should list your tape drive.
There is also a scsiadd tool which will do the necessary magic to add a device that was powered off at that last boot.
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05-31-2004 04:43 PM
05-31-2004 04:43 PM
Re: The tape drive is power off
I also found the below error in /var/log/messages , could suggest what can I do except reboot the system ? thx.
kernel: st0: Write not multiple of tape block size.
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Solution:
run: mt -f /dev/st0 setblk 0
The you will be able to use the tape and not get the above error message