The device should never be st0 as it's a rewind devive,  you need the
non rewind device, you should test nst0.
                        -Jason
On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 00:30 -0400, Arch Willingham wrote:
> I have a Sony SDX-400V which I think is an AIT-1 drive. I ran all the
> utils (I am using Fedora F9) I could find and I think I got it working
> (“/root/bacula/bin/btape -c bacula-sd.conf /dev/st0” runs a test
> correctly). I took a giant SWAG at how to setup the bacula-sd-conf. I
> have no idea if half the stuff is correct…can someone out there verify
> that this is correct?
> 
>  
> 
> Device { 
> 
>   Name = Sony_SDX-400V
> 
>   Media Type = 8mmAIT-2 # (what is this supposed to be set to??)
> 
>   #Archive Device = /dev/nst0
> 
>   Archive Device = /dev/st0
> 
>   AutomaticMount = yes
> 
>   AlwaysOpen = yes
> 
>   RemovableMedia = yes
> 
>   RandomAccess = no; 
> 
>   Drive Index = 1 
> 
>   # as recommended by btape 
> 
> # Hardware End of Medium = yes 
> 
>   BSF at EOM             = no 
> 
> #  Autochanger     = Yes 
> 
> #  Changer Device  = /dev/changer 
> 
> #  Changer Command = "/home/bacula/etc/bacula/scripts/mtx-changer %c %
> o %S %a 1" 
> 
>   LabelMedia = yes
> 
> } 
> 
>  
> 
> Here is the output from the different system utilities:
> 
>  
> 
> # ./sonytape /dev/st0 -t
> 
> SONY tape device detected.
> 
> SONY SDX-400V   Revision: 0102
> 
> Getting nori drive trace.
> 
> This process can take a few minutes.
> 
> Nori drive trace length = 0x69fc8
> 
> Nori drive trace complete(see nori_trace.txt).
> 
> Done.
> 
>  
> 
> # ./sonytape /dev/st0 -x datap.bin
> 
> SONY tape device detected.
> 
> SONY SDX-700V   Revision: 0102
> 
> Checking tape drive write and read function.
> 
> Warning!! This process will write over data and takes several minutes.
> 
> Data compression disabled.
> 
>  
> 
> # ./sonytape /dev/st0 -w datap.bin
> 
> SONY tape device detected.
> 
> SONY SDX-700V   Revision: 0102
> 
> Checking tape drive write and read function.
> 
> Warning!! This process will write over data and takes several minutes.
> 
> Data compression disabled.
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> # ./sonytape /dev/st0 -d 1
> 
> SONY tape device detected.
> 
> SONY SDX-700V   Revision: 0102
> 
> Data compression is currently disabled.
> 
> Changing tape drive data compression setting.
> 
> Data compression enabled.
> 
> Done.
> 
>  
> 
> I can’t remember what I ran to get this output below??
> 
>  
> 
> SONY tape device detected.
> 
> SONY SDX-700V   Revision: 0102
> 
> Checking tape drive write and read function.
> 
> Warning!! This process will write over data and takes several minutes.
> 
> Data compression disabled.
> 
> 1,638 MBytes of incremented data was written in 383 seconds.
> 
> Write transfer rate = 4.28 MBytes/sec
> 
> 1,638 MBytes of incremented data was read in 383 seconds.
> 
> Read transfer rate = 4.28 MBytes/sec
> 
> Data compression enabled.
> 
> 1,638 MBytes of incremented data was written in 147 seconds.
> 
> Write transfer rate = 11.14 MBytes/sec
> 
> 1,638 MBytes of incremented data was read in 146 seconds.
> 
> Read transfer rate = 11.22 MBytes/sec
> 
> Current RAW count: 6
> 
> Current ECC-3 count: 1
> 
> Current tape load count: 73
> 
> Write and read function check complete.
> 
> Done.
> 
>  
> 
> Product Type: Tape Drive
> 
> Vendor ID: 'SONY    '
> 
> Product ID: 'SDX-700V        '
> 
> Revision: '0102'
> 
> Attached Changer API: No
> 
> SerialNumber: '0009751387'
> 
> MinBlock: 2
> 
> MaxBlock: 16777215
> 
> SCSI ID: 2
> 
> SCSI LUN: 0
> 
> Ready: yes
> 
> BufferedMode: yes
> 
> Medium Type: Not Loaded
> 
> Density Code: 0x30
> 
> BlockSize: 0
> 
> DataCompEnabled: yes
> 
> DataCompCapable: yes
> 
> DataDeCompEnabled: yes
> 
> CompType: 0x3
> 
> DeCompType: 0x3
> 
> BOP: yes
> 
> Block Position: 0
> 
> Partition 0 Remaining Kbytes: 34866680
> 
> Partition 0 Size in Kbytes: 34866680
> 
> ActivePartition: 0
> 
> EarlyWarningSize: 0
> 
> NumPartitions: 0
> 
> MaxPartitions: 1
> 
> 
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