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Article #2309Re: Using tar with a SCSI DAT drive
From: Dave Olson
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 19:47
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 19:47
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In <1993Jan10.090824.24470@cs.ucla.edu> grw@oahu.cs.ucla.edu (George Wu) writes:
| I recently installed an Archive Python SCSI DAT drive on my system
| (NeXTStation Mono running NS 2.1) for backup purposes. However, I
| have been unable to use tar on the drive. I always get an 'I/O error'
| when I run tar and the associated SCSI error is as follows.
|
| st: cmd = 0x15 sr_io_status = 2H
| Sense key = 0x5 Sense Code = 0x1a
|
| According to scsireg.h the SCSI command causing the problem is MODE
| SELECT and the sense key (0x5) indicates invalid request. Does anyone
| know the solution to this problem ? Any help is appreciated.
sense code 1a indicates parameter overrun, which presumably
means that one of the bytes in the command is out of range.
Perhaps you (or the driver) is trying for a blocksize that the
drive doesn't support?
--
Let no one tell me that silence gives consent, | Dave Olson
because whoever is silent dissents. | Silicon Graphics, Inc.
Maria Isabel Barreno | olson@sgi.com
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