Yeah I saw your posts in the archives Richard and was trying all those suggestions. Looks like the best idea is to sell it on e-bay.
Anyone got a recommendation for a "good cheap drive"?
This is for home, I got this one cheap (aka free). I would love LTO2 (what I use at work) but is probably a bit out of my budget.
Thanks everyone, even though it looks like I won't be using this drive.
Greg.
On 11/28/05, richard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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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Regards,
Richard.
