[plug] HP T4000 Tape Drive

Peter Tran peter at prodigital.net.au
Fri Nov 16 17:55:39 WST 2001


Hi everyone,

Just wondering if anyone has been able to get a T4000 tape drive to work 
with linux?

My linux machine seems to detect the drive fine, but i get a "input output" 
error.

backup:/# mt -f /dev/st0 status
mt: /dev/st0: Input/output error


SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
scsi0 : Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 6.2.1
         <Adaptec aic7860 Ultra SCSI adapter>
         aic7860: Ultra Single Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 3/255 SCBs

   Vendor: HP        Model: 4.26GB A 50-S65A  Rev: S65A
   Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
(scsi0:A:0): 20.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 15)
   Vendor: HP        Model: T4000s            Rev: 1.10
   Type:   Sequential-Access                  ANSI SCSI revision: 02
scsi0:0:0:0: Tagged Queuing enabled.  Depth 253
st: Version 20010812, bufsize 32768, wrt 30720, max init. bufs 4, s/g segs 16
Attached scsi tape st0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 4, lun 0
Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
SCSI device sda: 8330543 512-byte hdwr sectors (4265 MB)
Partition check:
  sda: sda1 sda2 sda3



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