[adding linux-scsi mailing list] On Mon, 25 Jul 2011 21:05:08 -0400 Marc D Ronell wrote: > > > I am having trouble writing to a scsi tape drive which is connected to > a startech PCISCSIUW card that uses the Initio Corporation INI-950 > chipset. Using the 2.6.39.3 kernel, I can read from the scsi tape > drive successfully, but when I attempt to write, the write fails. I > am attempting to write as root to avoid permission problems. This > failure seems to be potentially a driver problem. The tape drive and > tapes have been tested earlier with a different box and were used to > generate the tapes which were successfully read. > > The failures are as follows: > > root@myhost:~# tar cvf /dev/st0 ~myaccount/ > tar: Removing leading `/' from member names > /home/myaccount/ > /home/myaccount/.netpanzer/ > /home/myaccount/.netpanzer/log.txt > /home/myaccount/.netpanzer/config/ > /home/myaccount/.netpanzer/config/netpanzer.xml > /home/myaccount/.newsrc.eld > /home/myaccount/2.4.24.config > /home/myaccount/.Xauthority > /home/myaccount/.xsession-errors > tar: /dev/st0: Cannot write: Input/output error > tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now > > The errors written to the /var/log/syslog are: > > Jul 24 14:10:50 myhost kernel: [18806.011317] st0: Block limits 1 - 16777215 bytes. > Jul 24 14:11:32 myhost kernel: [18848.303903] st0: Sense Key : Illegal Request [current] > Jul 24 14:11:32 myhost kernel: [18848.303909] st0: Add. Sense: Invalid command operation code > Jul 24 14:11:32 myhost kernel: [18848.303914] st0: Error on write filemark. > Jul 24 14:12:29 myhost kernel: [18905.561873] st0: Sense Key : Illegal Request [current] > Jul 24 14:12:29 myhost kernel: [18905.561878] st0: Add. Sense: Invalid command operation code > Jul 24 14:12:51 myhost kernel: [18926.897446] st0: Sense Key : 0xf [deferred] [descriptor] > Jul 24 14:12:51 myhost kernel: [18926.897452] Descriptor sense data with sense descriptors (in hex): > Jul 24 14:12:51 myhost kernel: [18926.897455] ff ff fe ef c9 24 a5 2d d3 29 6e 09 d0 56 00 00 > Jul 24 14:12:51 myhost kernel: [18926.897463] 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 > Jul 24 14:12:51 myhost kernel: [18926.897471] 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 > Jul 24 14:12:51 myhost kernel: [18926.897479] 00 00 00 00 00 > Jul 24 14:12:51 myhost kernel: [18926.897482] st0: <<vendor>> ASC=0xfe ASCQ=0xefASC=0xfe <<vendor>> ASCQ=0xef > > Not sure if anyone is supporting the driver. Thanks in advance for > any help or suggestions. > > Marc --- ~Randy *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
