[plug] mounting a tape drive

[Jon L. Miller]

Trying to mount a Seagate  STT20000A tape drive. Getting the following
message in dmesg:


ide-tape: hdd <-> ht0: 1000KBps, 6*54kB buffer, 9720kB pipeline, 110ms
tDSC, DMA
ide-tape: Reached idetape_chrdev_open
ide-tape: Reached idetape_read_position
ide-tape: Reached idetape_read_position_callback
ide-tape: hdd: Unsupported command in request queue (0)
end_request: I/O error, dev 16:40 (hdd), sector 2
ide-tape: hdd: Unsupported command in request queue (0)
end_request: I/O error, dev 16:40 (hdd), sector 0
FAT: unable to read boot sector


Not sure, but there is a backup done, I cannot get a restore from the
tape.  So I thought I would mount the device and copy the tar file and
extract the file I need.  However, I'm not able to mount the drive.

Any ideas?

TIA

jlm