I'm using a 2.4.5 kernel with devfs so the device files are already there.
The problem I'm having is that it seems to hit the end of the tape to
soon. I was finally able to get a 22M backup with tar today but the tape
should hold at the least 3.5G. I did finally figure out how to set the
delay to 0 and found in all of the normal archival programs the option to
set the block size. I tested with a new tape today and found that the
drive runs right to the end of the tape and locks up then the tape never
gets rewound and ends up working the same way with any other drive it goes
into. Really strange.
One more note to the rest of the list. If anyone has any pointers on
where to find info on putting the rest of the mtops into this driver I
would like to give it a shot. I started looking at the code today and
have started working on getting at least retension to work but don't know
if what I'm doing is right. I'm mostly just cutting and pasting from
various parts of the st driver and copying what was done to put in the
rewind mtop.
Thanx,
Russ
On Fri, 8 Jun 2001, James Mckenzie wrote:
> Russel:
>
> I use one of these to back up my drive. You have to create the
> devices. You then can try tar -cvf /dev/npt0 <files>....
>
> James Mckenzie
>
> Russel Ingram wrote:
> >
> > I've searched the archives for the past several days and found lots of
> > evidence that my parallel port HP Colorado 8GBe tape drive should work
> > with the pt driver. I haven't been able to find a couple of specifics tho
> > and haven't been able to make the drive complete a dump. I'm trying to
> > backup an XFS filesystem with xfsdump that should be well under even the
> > uncompressed capacity of the TR-4 tapes this thing takes but it keeps
> > trying to forward past the end of the tape and gives up with these
> > messages in the syslogs:
> >
> > pt: HP COLORADO 8GBe, master, blocksize 512, 3954 MB
> > pt: write DSC timeout
> > pt: write filemark stat=0x41 err=0x0
> > pt: Sense key: 3, ASC: 52, ASQ: 0
> >
> > Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong? I understand that the blocksize
> > would best be set at 16k, but I can't see any information on how to set
> > that. I also see that the parallel port delay should be set to 0, but I
> > can't seem to find anywhere where it say how to do that. Thanks in advance
> > for any hints anyone can supply.
> >
> > Russ
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