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Nolan,
The error below is not fatal. key 2, asc/q 3a/0 is "medium not present".
To eliminate it, place a media in the drive, stall the boot process
(for example, by pressing ALT at the lilo prompt) till the tape loads
the media, and than continue the boot process (I'll add code which
will get the tape capabilities on each device open rather than only
during boot / module load to solve this).
Unfortunately, tough, the AIWA tape drive is not working with Linux yet.
We have made some progress, and current kernels are at least able to talk
to the drive, but I received reports that only very small backups/restores
(less than 20kB) actually work.
Gadi
On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, nunca wrote:
> When I boot up, the following message is displayed on the console:
> ide-tape: ht0: I/O error, pc = 1a, key = 2, asc = 3a, ascq = 0
> ide-tape: Can't get tape parameters - assuming some default values
> ide-tape: hdd <-> ht0, 450KBps, 6*26kB buffer, 2600kB pipeline, 146ms tDSC
> Is this a problem? I've yet to purchase any tapes, so I have no way of
> telling if this error is fatal or not. Any tips would be appreciated!
> -Nolan
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>Unfortunately, tough, the AIWA tape drive is not working with Linux yet.
>We have made some progress, and current kernels are at least able to talk
>to the drive, but I received reports that only very small backups/restores
>(less than 20kB) actually work.
I'm still working on getting the specs from AIWA (through TSLI, their US
support company). TSLI is very interested in getting Linux support for the
Bolt series. They have been wanting to use it themselves.... More news when
I have it...
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