SCSI Parity error with Seagate DDS4 Drive

Sean McAvoy <sean.mcavoy-qn16hGXA5Y/[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.admin.managers
Organization Megawheels Technologies Inc.
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hello,
I'm having a problem with a Tape drive (Seagate 9SP40-000, DDS4)  that
has
been added to a Dell PowerEdge 1600sc, installed on the builtin MPT
controller. The drive is recognized, the st module loaded, and mt return
no errors when querying the drive status. But when I run `tar cvf
/dev/tape /etc` to test it, I get the following

error from tar:tar: /dev/tape: Wrote only 0 of 10240 bytes
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
when I check `dmesg` I see:
SCSI Error Report =-=-= (0:6:0)
  SCSI_Status=02h (CHECK CONDITION)
  Original_CDB[]: 0A 01 00 00 3C 00 - "WRITE(6)"
  SenseData[12h]: 70 00 0B 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 47 00 00 00 00 00
  SenseKey=Bh (ABORTED COMMAND); FRU=00h
  ASC/ASCQ=47h/00h ""
st0: Error with sense data: Current st09:00: sense key Aborted Command
Additional sense indicates Scsi parity error

I'm running Debian 3.0, with a custom 2.4.20 SMP kernel. I use the same
kernel on numerous other 1600sc's without issue, but they use the Dell
supplied dds4 tape drive.

Is this hardware failure, or just SCSI misconfiguration?
Any help is much appreciated, Thanks!


-- 
Sean McAvoy
Network Analyst

Megawheels Technologies Inc.
Phone: 416.360.8211 ext. 242
  Fax: 416.360.1403
 Cell: 416.616.6599
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