[plug] status error msg

[Phil Steege]

If your tape drive is connected on your primary master IDE slot,
/dev/hda, then it looks like it is having communication/status errors.
Try reseating your cabling, or moving to another IDE slot to confirm the
problem is in the tape drive controller.


On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 20:32, Jon Miller wrote:
> Like to know what does the following mean and how do I fix it or does it
> needs fixing? This happens whenever the system does a tape backup.
> 
> kernel: hda: status error: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
> kernel: hda: drive not ready for command
> kernel: ide-tape: Reached idetape_read_position_callback
> kernel: hda: status error: status=0x01 { Error }
> kernel: hda: status error: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
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> Thanks
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