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Title: Tape error /dev/st0: Input/output error
Post by: Anonymous on March 20, 2004, 12:55:14 PM

Hi All

Have a HP SCSI Travan T20 tape drive, but it does not work!

"/dev/st0: Input/output error" is the offending line in messages.

Do I need to change some configuration file?

Running SME 6.01.

Also tried direct mt commands.

login as: root
Sent username "root"
root@192.168.10.3's password:
Last login: Sat Mar 20 11:05:07 2004 from pc-00199.beast.dk
Welcome to the Mitel Networks SME Server.
[root@server root]# mt status
/dev/tape: No such file or directory
[root@server root]# mt -f /dev/st0 status
/dev/st0: Input/output error
[root@server root]# mt -f /dev/nst0 status
/dev/nst0: Input/output error

Thanks for any direction ;-)

Beast

Title: Tape error /dev/st0: Input/output error
Post by: barryf on March 23, 2004, 10:20:35 AM

It sounds like a tape or head problem.  Try another tape, or cleaning the heads.  What happens if you do a find . -print | cpio -oBvc > /dev/st0?  

Barry

Title: Tape error /dev/st0: Input/output error
Post by: Beast on March 23, 2004, 07:22:39 PM

It was some sort of head problem. I took the hardware apart and really cleaned it a lot, then it worked.

Thanks !!!!!
Beast

Title: Scsi Tape Drive
Post by: FloydWales on April 07, 2004, 04:47:26 PM

I had a problem with Linux reporting a input output error

It was a harware problem changed the drive all worked ok then.

Thanks