Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 17:06:39 -0400 From: Mikhail Teterin <mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com> To: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org> Cc: scsi@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: troubles with an Exhabyte tape drive Message-ID: <200305151706.39871.mi%2Bmx@aldan.algebra.com> In-Reply-To: <20030515141332.A668@panzer.kdm.org> References: <200305151607.02102.mi%2Bmx@aldan.algebra.com> <20030515141332.A668@panzer.kdm.org>
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Thanks for a prompt response! On Thursday 15 May 2003 04:13 pm, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: = On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 16:07:02 -0400, Mikhail Teterin wrote: = > We can read the tapes using this drive: = > = > sa0 at sym0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 = > sa0: <EXABYTE EXB-89008E030203 V41e> Removable Sequential Access SCSI-2 device = > sa0: 20.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 15, 16bit) = > but we can not write anything :-( The kernel's messages logged are: = > = > (sa0:sym0:0:0:0): WRITE(06). CDB: a 0 0 28 0 0 = > (sa0:sym0:0:0:0): ILLEGAL REQUEST asc:30,5 = > (sa0:sym0:0:0:0): Cannot write medium - incompatible format = I'm guessing it's the tapes. That's what the message seems to say. = = Are you *sure* your tapes are write compatible with the drive? I know = there are various Exabyte drives that can read, but not write, old = format tapes. Could be. I just found the following table: http://www.8mm.com/support/online/kb/display.cfm?id=152 it can only write in its own format, but can read 8500c, 8500, 8200. I guess, we need to find a EXB-8500c to be able to exchange data with various clients... -mi
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