Hi Greg, > has anyone actually got one of these to work with bacula? This is a > drive out of a Dell Machine (no idea what), and the drive was hardly > used. > This is an ATAPI model, set to slave, with no other devices on the IDE > controller. > I have wasted many hours now trying to get this drive to work with > bacula, without success.
I spent many hours this autumn ("Fall" to you!) trying to get an STT20000A to work - I think it's a very similar drive, fairly sure it too came from a Dell. You may see the various messages in the archive, last bits around 18th November I think.
I couldn't even get tar to work properly till I disabled DMA using hdparm (SuSE had automatically set it on), after that I upgraded to the latest version (1.38.1 then) and started from the "OnStream" config.
I experimented with a range of block sizes ("mt /dev/nst0 status" reports 512 bytes but that didn't help either. Also Kern suggested a switch for an ioctrl (can't remember the details, will be in the archive though).
I kept getting errors similar to those you report and have now abandoned the drive - will probably sell on ebay after Christmas!
I am considering trying the Iomega Rev (when funds permit!) and keen to use bacula with it - anyone had any experience of this drive?
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