It works. Maybe its normal that there are no sounds when i try to rewind the
tape when its also at the beginning from the tape!
Thank you all for your help
Backup works very well
-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: George Kelbley [mailto:kelbley AT cs.unm DOT edu]
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 16. Februar 2006 16:47
An: Sebastian Koesters
Betreff: Re: AW: AW: AW: Question: does this DLT Drive work?
Well, that looks like it labeled the tape, if you do "amtape config
current" it should read the label and tell you. Where config is your
real config name of course.
Sebastian Koesters wrote:
> Its a new new and (i think) a real good tape.
>
> I tried to label it:
>
> bash-3.00$ amlabel full-sonntag DailySet1001
> rewinding, reading label, reading label: Input/output error
> rewinding, writing label DailySet1001, checking label, done.
>
> My config:
>
> tapedev "/dev/nst0
>
> tapetype DLT320
>
> define tapetype DLT320 {
> comment "DLT 320"
> length 300000 mbytes
> filemark 28 kbytes
> speed 2349 kps
> }
>
>
>
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: George Kelbley [mailto:kelbley AT cs.unm DOT edu]
> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 16. Februar 2006 16:25
> An: Sebastian Koesters
> Betreff: Re: AW: AW: Question: does this DLT Drive work?
>
> Yes it should. If send mine a rewind command I can hear it. Besides
> rewind, have tried any other commands, like try to make it seek forward
> using the fsf option in mt?
>
> Is this a new or used tape drive? Is it known to be good?
>
>
> Sebastian Koesters wrote:
>
>>Hi and thank you
>>
>>I see this
>>
>>scsi0 : Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 6.2.36
>> <Adaptec 29160 Ultra160 SCSI adapter>
>> aic7892: Ultra160 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 32/253 SCBs
>>
>> Vendor: QUANTUM Model: DLT-V4 Rev: 0400
>> Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
>> target0:0:4: Beginning Domain Validation
>>WIDTH IS 1
>>(scsi0:A:4): 6.600MB/s transfers (16bit)
>> target0:0:4: Domain Validation skipping write tests
>>(scsi0:A:4): 40.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 96, 16bit)
>> target0:0:4: Ending Domain Validation
>>
>>and this in dmesg
>>
>>st: Version 20050312, fixed bufsize 32768, s/g segs 256
>>Attached scsi tape st0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 4, lun 0
>>st0: try direct i/o: yes (alignment 512 B), max page reachable by HBA
>>1048575
>>
>>so the drive must be /dev/st0
>>
>>but shouldnt the drive make some sound or something like this when i try
>
> to
>
>>rewind (mt -f /dev/st0 rewind) ?!
>>
>>it shows no activity on the led and makes no sounds (using the tape)
>>
>>
>>-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>>Von: Paul Bijnens [mailto:paul.bijnens AT xplanation DOT com]
>>Gesendet: Donnerstag, 16. Februar 2006 16:01
>>An: Sebastian Koesters
>>Betreff: Re: AW: Question: does this DLT Drive work?
>>
>>On 02/16/2006 03:38 PM, Sebastian Koesters wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Now i build in the drive but i do not know whats his device name is?!
>>>
>>>My old DAT-Drive was nst0 but this does nt work with the DLT!?
>>
>>
>>Do "dmesg | less", short after a reboot (short means: when the
>>oldest messages in the kernel ring buffer are not yet overwritten
>>by newer ones, that could be minutes, or months, depending on
>>your environment).
>>
>>Look in the boot messages for your hardware.
>>First a SCSI card should be detected (from my machine:)
>>
>> scsi0 : Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 6.2.36
>> <Adaptec 29160 Ultra160 SCSI adapter>
>> aic7892: Ultra160 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 32/253 SCBs
>>
>> (scsi0:A:3): 160.000MB/s transfers (80.000MHz DT, offset 64, 16bit)
>> Vendor: HP Model: Ultrium 2-SCSI Rev: S24D
>> Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03
>>
>>If you do not see that, you may need to load the kernel module for
>>your particular scsi card. In my case it is done automatically,
>>the manual command would be: "modprobe aic7xxx", because that kernel
>>module can handle that kind of hardware card.
>>
>>Some lines further down, you should see the sequential tape (st)
>>kernel module handle the tape drive that was discovered:
>>
>> st: Version 20040403, fixed bufsize 32768, s/g segs 256
>> Attached scsi tape st0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 3, lun 0
>> st0: try direct i/o: yes (alignment 512 B), max page reachable by HBA
>>1048575
>>
>>If you don't have lines starting with 'st', you may need to load the
>>st-kernel module too (manual command: "modprobe st").
>>
>>The middle line above also show that "st0" (that means /dev/st0) is
>>the tape drive device.
>>
>>A good introduction is found here:
>>
>
>
http://www.chongluo.com/books/rute/node45.html#SECTION004569000000000000000
>
>>
>>
>>
>
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