Re: Overland Arcvault 12 and sequential/random settings

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I use Dell 124T tape loaders with Centos. The controlling device on mine is separate to the data device.

e.g.

I use:

$> mtx -f /dev/sg1 status

But for writing to tape:

$> tar cvf /dev/st0 /etc

I think the dmesg told me which device to use to control.

mjh


On 13/03/2008, Scott R. Ehrlich <scott@xxxxxxx> wrote:
My unit's firmware: library 05.03, tape d22h, shows the device as set to
random mode. But mtx -f /dev/st0 status gives an error that google says
the device is in sequential mode.  dmesg|grep -i hp does reflect CentOS
thinks the device is a sequential unit.

I've tried this with Fedora 8, too, and both show the same, so it is
either an issue with CentOS/Fedora RPMs, or the version of MTX?

I'm going to try a simple install of Ubuntu next and see if there is any
difference.

Is this a bug with the firmware, or with my setup?

I have rebooted the tape drive and machine several times.

I have the drive connected to an Adaptec 29160.

I have another identical drive on another system, with a library firmware
of d21h, tape firmware 04.04, and that works perfectly with mtx, though it
is connected to a different SCSI card.

Thanks for any help/insights.

Scott
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