[CLUE-Tech] Do I have a bad tape?

[Dave Hahn]

Jeff Cann wrote:

>On Sunday 21 December 2003 12:57 pm, Dave Hahn wrote:
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>>The tape drive is being recognized as /dev/ht0 (ide tape 0).  What do
>>you get is you point mt at /dev/ht0?
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>This (buried at the bottom of original post) :
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>>>-- ide-tape ---
>>># /sbin/insmod ide-tape
>>># mt -f /dev/ht0 rewind
>>>/dev/ht0: Device or resource busy
>>>
>>># dmesg | tail -3
>>>ide-tape: Block location is unknown to the tape
>>>ide-tape: ht0: I/O error, pc =  0, key =  3, asc = 52, ascq =  0
>>>ide-tape: ht0: drive not ready
>>>
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[snip]

Sorry about that.  I'm trying to remember when I had this issue.  Do 
things change at all if you insert the module with a tape in or out of 
the drive? (Please forgive, I'm digging through dusty recollection....)

-d