troubles with an Exhabyte tape drive

[Mikhail Teterin]

Thanks for a prompt response!

On Thursday 15 May 2003 04:13 pm, Kenneth D. Merry wrote:
= On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 16:07:02 -0400, Mikhail Teterin wrote:
= > We can read the tapes using this drive:
= > 
= > sa0 at sym0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
= > sa0: <EXABYTE EXB-89008E030203 V41e> Removable Sequential Access SCSI-2 
device 
= > sa0: 20.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 15, 16bit)

= > but we can not write anything :-( The kernel's messages logged are:
= > 
= > 	(sa0:sym0:0:0:0): WRITE(06). CDB: a 0 0 28 0 0 
= > 	(sa0:sym0:0:0:0): ILLEGAL REQUEST asc:30,5
= > 	(sa0:sym0:0:0:0): Cannot write medium - incompatible format
 
= I'm guessing it's the tapes.  That's what the message seems to say.
= 
= Are you *sure* your tapes are write compatible with the drive? I know
= there are various Exabyte drives that can read, but not write, old
= format tapes.

Could be. I just found the following table:

	http://www.8mm.com/support/online/kb/display.cfm?id=152

it can only write in its own format, but can read 8500c, 8500, 8200.
I guess, we need to find a EXB-8500c to be able to exchange data with
various clients...

	-mi