ARCHIVE SCSI ST525 TAPE AND ISC UNIX 3.01 WONT WRITE

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1 total messages Started by Peter J Diaz de Leon Sat, 07 Nov 1992 19:55

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Author: Peter J Diaz de Leon
Date: Sat, 07 Nov 1992 19:55

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I recently bought a Archive ST525 SCSI tape drive and
am running it on a DPT EISA SCSI controler under
ISC UNIX SYS 5 R3 V:3.0.1

The tape drive has been set for SCSI ID 2.
I am able to use the "mt" command to retension
and rewind and erase the tape in the drive.
The mt command with the "-v" option gives me
the following:

       Found scsi tape:
              speed = 0
	      flags = 0x2118
	      spare = 0
	      media = 0
	      recsiz = 512

       Rewind status 0

However, when I try to write out to the tape
using tar or cpio I get:

I/O error on write(), errno 5, I/O error

I get a very similar message if I try to read of 
a tape made on another machine.  

By the way the tape in the tape drive is a
DC6150.  I have not had a chance to go and buy
6525 tapes yet. Could this be the problem?
The vendor I bought the tape drive says no.

I need to get this running since I have not backed
up my system in 3 weeks when my old tape drive
died.

Thanks
Peter
(peter@miller.cs.uwm.edu)

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