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Title: Flexbackup and nst0 vs nht0
Post by: Todd Pearsall on August 26, 2002, 06:31:26 PM

An old problem returns...

I have a Seagate STT20000A IDE tape drive.  Back in the days of v5.1.2 it would only respond to "/dev/nst0", "/dev/nht0" would giuve messages like "no device" or "Tape not found".  The only problem was that using "/dev/nst0" I would get "Error with sense data" message during the backup.  (There are several long threads about that)

Well, along comes v5.5 and now the drive only responds to "/dev/nht0" and the "Error with sense data" messages are gone!  All is right in the world.

Then comes v5.5 SP2 and I'm back to "/dev/nst0" and expecting to see "Error with sense data" messages, but I have yet to confirm.

Does this make sense to anyone?

Thanks,
Todd

Title: Re: Flexbackup and nst0 vs nht0
Post by: Dan Williams on March 06, 2003, 07:59:02 PM

Hi Todd,
I have all those entries happening all the time to,
Did you figure a resolution, or concern?
5.5U2
Dan

Title: Re: Flexbackup and nst0 vs nht0
Post by: Daniel on April 05, 2003, 02:00:33 AM

Does this help?

http://lists.insecure.org/lists/linux-kernel/2001/Sep/0050.html

Can anyone explain what's going on with ide tapes on e-smith?