Hai ed, Mine is a SCSI tape on the secondary channnel, Device is tandberg slr6.. redhat recognise the tape drive. but i cannot write anything to it using tar. it says I/O error. tape device file is /dev/st0 when i issued the comand mt -f /dev/st0 status i got SCSI 2 tape drive: File number=-1, block number=-1, partition=0. Tape block size 0 bytes. Density code 0x0 (default). Soft error count since last status=0 General status bits on (50000): DR_OPEN IM_REP_EN but no other commands like "rewind" and "seek" is working giving the error message "I/O error. Anish ________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger - Communicate instantly..."Ping" your friends today! Download Messenger Now http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com/download/index.html -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
