RE: nst0 attached to a raid card gives lots of errors

Geoffrey Scott wrote:
> Geoffrey Scott wrote:
>> Russell Shaw wrote:
>>> Geoffrey Scott wrote:
> 
>>> Make sure the scsi terminator(s) are attached and working.
>> 
>> It's a 50 pin narrow scsi ribbon cable for an internal tape drive;
>> there is a big knobbly bit on the end of the cable after it attaches
>> to the tape drive, which I assumed was the terminator.  The other end
>> is correctly plugged in as, labelled to the raid card.  There doesn't
>> appear to be any terminators built into the tape drive (an HP
>> surestore DAT24) So I think it's terminated properly.......
>> 
>> GS
> 
> I saw a cheapy initio a100u2w for sale for about $70 dollars on
> everything Linux.  So I got that and compiled the module (Redhat ES 3
> doesn't have it compiled by default) and I can finally get the status
> of the tape drive without any problems.  I've still got problems with
> my backups though, so now I have to see if the tapes are getting too
> old or if the tape drive is dodgy.  Thanks for the suggestions
> people.      
> 
> Regards Geoff Scott

Just as a follow up to my old email I thought you all might like to know
that using a RAID card for attaching a tape drive appears to be a bad
idea...  The new scsi card works fine.  (except I have to recompile the
module every time I use up2date to install a new kernel)  and the old tapes
appear to have been becoming dodgy as well.


Regards Geoff Scott