I reported this a few weeks ago or so, it seems that HP 7/14's are not exactly
standard. First is the proprietory tape size. Second is that the drive doesn't
support locking the tape in, but reports it as possible. At least, that's what i
gather from Jens's posting.
To be honest, I'm not sure the drives are worth fixing <grin> Unreliable media,
unreliable tape drives. I've got two dead out of 10, in under a year. And half a
dozen tapes or so. Plus, under 2.2.17+ide, the tape drive wouldn't restore tapes.
Something weird about the tape drive again. Had to boot up under plain 2.2.17 to
read my tapes.
Eckhard Jokisch wrote:
> >
> > # tar -tvf /dev/ht0
> > ide-tape: ht0: I/O error, pc = 8, key = 5, asc = 2c, ascq = 0
> >
> > A search on deja.com shows that I am not the only one to have
> > experienced this and that it did not occur with previous versions of
> > ide-tape.c. The same error occurs with a non-modular kernel build.
> >
> I experience the same with OnStream DI30 - but these errors occure in 2.2.17 as
> well. In my oppinion they show up in fewer cases with 2.4-test10.
> The error is not quite"stable" because it occures on different tape positions
> (filenames) when I retension the tape three aor four times befor writing to it.
>
> I checked the tapes on a Windows machine and they seem to be o.k..
>
> Eckhard Jokisch
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