hi, i am experiencing troubles with an IDE tape, hooked up as secondary slave to an otherwise perfectly working machine.
i created the device nodes for /dev/ht0 with `mknod /dev/hd0 c 37 0` but when i use 'mt' to display the status of the drive (or to rewind, or to erase, or to whatever), i get logs like the folloowing: kernel: ide-tape: Reached idetape_chrdev_open kernel: ide-tape: Reached idetape_read_position kernel: ide-tape: ht0: I/O error, pc = 10, key = 7, asc = 27, ascq = 0 kernel: ide-tape: Reached idetape_read_position_callback kernel: ide-tape: Reached idetape_read_position kernel: ide-tape: ht0: I/O error, pc = 10, key = 7, asc = 27, ascq = 0 kernel: ide-tape: Reached idetape_read_position_callback kernel: ide-tape: ht0: I/O error, pc = 10, key = 7, asc = 27, ascq = 0 kernel: ide-tape: Reached idetape_read_position_callback i get the same errors when i do something trivial like `tar cf /dev/ht0 /boot`, which outputs tar: /dev/tape: Wrote only 0 of 10240 bytes tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now i am pretty sure that the drive is working, it plays around with the tape when you insert it, and it's correctly identified by the linux kernel (2.4.9). any clues how i should go from here? martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \____ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- . `___ (o- (o- (o- (o- (o- (o- (o- /\/| | | //\ //\ //\ //\ //\ //\ //\ ` /\/\/l-+-| v_/_ v_/_ v_/_ v_/_ v_/_ v_/_ v_/_ .` /\/\/|_|_|
