[CLUE-Tech] Re: Can I use HP Colorado 5GB ATAPI tape hardware with RedHat 7.1?

[Carl Gibbons]

I tried installing Roswell (Redhat 7.2 beta) as suggested by the
maintainer of the Hardware HOWTO (nice guy!) but I still have the same
troubles:  Manipulating and writing to the tape works fine, but reading
back what was written to the tape always fails with something like:

  tar: /dev/nht0: Cannot read: Input/output error
  tar: At beginning of tape, quitting now
  tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

and a kernel syslog message:

  kernel: ide-tape: ht0: I/O error, pc =  8, key =  5, asc = 2c, ascq =  0

I haven't tried downgrading to RedHat 6.2 or something else that uses a
2.2.x kernel; from what I've learned, that's what I'll have to do, since
the ide-tape kernel module seems not to work in 2.4.x kernels.  Jeff, do
you have your HP Colorado 5GB tape drive working with a 2.4.x kernel?

- Carl