Topic: Ecrix VXA IDE Tape Drive errors

[geoff]

I have a P4 2Ghz with 2 X mirrored 'Atlas' 36Gb SCSI HDD, and an Ecrix VXA IDE Tape drive, seen as 'ht0' (hdc ->ht0) and I keep getting this:


Nov 29 19:37:08 imc02 kernel: ide-tape: ht0: I/O error, pc = 1a, key =  5, asc = 24, ascq =  0
Nov 29 19:37:08 imc02 kernel: ide-tape: Can't get tape parameters - assuming some default values
Nov 29 19:37:08 imc02 kernel: ide-tape: hdc <-> ht0, 450KBps, 6*26kB buffer, 2600kB pipeline, 140ms tDSC
Nov 29 19:37:09 imc02 kernel: ide-tape: ht0: I/O error, pc = 34, key =  2, asc = 3a, ascq =  0
Nov 29 19:37:09 imc02 kernel: ide-tape: ht0: I/O error, pc =  1, key =  2, asc = 3a, ascq =  0
Nov 29 19:37:09 imc02 kernel: ide-tape: ht0: I/O error, pc = 34, key =  2, asc = 3a, ascq =  0
Nov 29 19:37:09 imc02 kernel: ide-tape: ht0: I/O error, pc =  1, key =  2, asc = 3a, ascq =  0
Nov 29 19:37:19 imc02 kernel: ide-tape: ht0: I/O error, pc = 34, key =  2, asc = 3a, ascq =  0
Nov 29 19:37:19 imc02 kernel: ide-tape: ht0: I/O error, pc =  1, key =  2, asc = 3a, ascq =  0
Nov 29 19:37:19 imc02 kernel: ide-tape: ht0: I/O error, pc = 34, key =  2, asc = 3a, ascq =  0
Nov 29 19:37:29 imc02 kernel: ide-tape: ht0: I/O error, pc = 34, key =  2, asc = 3a, ascq =  0
Nov 29 19:37:29 imc02 kernel: ide-tape: ht0: I/O error, pc =  1, key =  2, asc = 3a, ascq =  0
Nov 29 19:37:30 imc02 kernel: ide-tape: ht0: I/O error, pc = 34, key =  2, asc = 3a, ascq =  0
Nov 29 19:37:30 imc02 kernel: ide-tape: ht0: I/O error, pc =  1, key =  2, asc = 3a, ascq =  0


Any ideas, please?

[Darrell May]

geoff wrote:
>
> I have a P4 2Ghz with 2 X mirrored 'Atlas' 36Gb SCSI HDD, and
> an Ecrix VXA IDE Tape drive, seen as 'ht0' (hdc ->ht0) and I
> keep getting this:

Not to suggest it can't be done... however I've only heard of success using the ide-scsi emulation driver with this tape drive.  I suggest you define the ide-scsi module as the second scsi adapter in /etc/modules.conf and test using 'st0'.  This may help:

http://myezserver.com/downloads/mitel/howto/scsi-hostadapter-howto.html

If this is a live server I'd practice on a test server first

Regards,

[geoff]

It looks like this is fraught with peril both now and for the future, so I have contacted my supplier and we intend exchanging the IDE drive for a SCSI of the same make/type, which should cure the issue.

This link also helped: http://www.linuxtapecert.org/

Many thanks for everyone's assistance - much appreciated.