I'm trying to get an HP DLT30 (system 'sees' it as a DEC DLT2000) with an
Adaptec SCSI card (aic7xxx driver) to work on Fedora Core 2. And I seem
to have run into all the problems listed on the 'testing your tape drive'
page.
First, I tried just setting it up and running without running 'btape' (no
rasperries, please!). Well, I got the 'Wanted block-id: "BB02", got "".
Buffer discarded' error when labelling the tape, but everything seemed to
work well anyway, so I went on my merry way. The system seemed to be
running well, until one of the backup jobs failed (flakey network
connection). When I tried re-running the job, I got the 'Incorrect File
Number Error'. I tried correcting that, and, this time, decided to go
ahead and run 'btape'. Here's my output:
Tape block granularity is 1024 bytes.
btape: butil.c:258 Using device: "/dev/nst0" for writing.
btape: btape.c:335 open_dev /dev/nst0 OK
*test
=== Write, rewind, and re-read test ===
I'm going to write 1000 records and an EOF
then write 1000 records and an EOF, then rewind,
and re-read the data to verify that it is correct.
This is an *essential* feature ...
btape: btape.c:786 Wrote 1000 blocks of 64412 bytes.
btape: btape.c:465 Wrote 1 EOF to /dev/nst0
btape: btape.c:802 Wrote 1000 blocks of 64412 bytes.
btape: btape.c:465 Wrote 1 EOF to /dev/nst0
btape: btape.c:811 Rewind OK.
1000 blocks re-read correctly.
Got EOF on tape.
1000 blocks re-read correctly.
=== Test Succeeded. End Write, rewind, and re-read test ===
=== Write, rewind, and position test ===
I'm going to write 1000 records and an EOF
then write 1000 records and an EOF, then rewind,
and position to a few blocks and verify that it is correct.
This is an *essential* feature ...
btape: btape.c:898 Wrote 1000 blocks of 64412 bytes.
btape: btape.c:465 Wrote 1 EOF to /dev/nst0
btape: btape.c:914 Wrote 1000 blocks of 64412 bytes.
btape: btape.c:465 Wrote 1 EOF to /dev/nst0
btape: btape.c:923 Rewind OK.
Reposition to file:block 0:4
btape: btape.c:1003 Bad data in record. Expected 5, got 1 at byte 0. Test
failed!
*
=====
And here's my current configuration:
Device {
Name = "Surestore30"
Media Type = "8mm"
Archive Device = /dev/nst0
Hardware end of medium = No
Hardware End of File = no
#Fast Forward Space File = no
AutomaticMount = yes # when device opened, read it
AlwaysOpen = Yes
RemovableMedia = yes
RandomAccess = no
Block Positioning = no
}
===
I've tried running the following from the command line. It doesn't seem
to make any difference:
mt -f /dev/nst0 stoptions buffer-writes async-writes read-ahead
Nor did 'defblksize 0'
I've tried cleaning the drive, using another tape and nothing seems to work.
Suggestions?
Anne
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