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["J. van Eck (Systeembeheer)" <j.vaneck@xxxxxxxxxx>]

The tape drive has worked before, but in a windows machine. not in a linux
machine.
The following information is returned by YAST.

+ +--Python 02779-XXX ¦ ¦
¦¦ ¦ ¦ +--Bus : SCSI ¦ ¦
¦¦ ¦ ¦ +--Class (spec) : Tape ¦ ¦
¦¦ ¦ ¦ +--Class : Mass Storage Device ¦ ¦
¦¦ ¦ ¦ +--Device : Python 02779-XXX ¦ ¦
¦¦ ¦ ¦ +--Device name : /dev/st0 ¦ ¦
¦¦ ¦ ¦ +--Model : ARCHIVE Python 02779-XXX ¦ ¦
¦¦ ¦ ¦ +--Rev : 658A ¦ ¦
¦¦ ¦ ¦ +--Unique key : m9fb.AZnhPU9aNK5 ¦ ¦
¦¦ ¦ ¦ +--Vendor : ARCHIVE ¦ ¦
¦¦ ¦ ¦ +--driver : aic7xxx ¦ ¦

It is an internal DAT tape drive.

The following is a part of the boot.msg

<4>VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
<6>scsi0 : Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 6.2.8
<4>        <Adaptec 2930CU SCSI adapter>
<4>        aic7860: Ultra Single Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 3/253 SCBs
<4>
<4>blk: queue c7f7c214, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
<4>  Vendor: IBM       Model: DNES-309170W      Rev: SA30
<4>  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 03
<4>blk: queue c7f7c614, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
<4>(scsi0:A:0): 20.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 15)
<4>  Vendor: ARCHIVE   Model: Python 02779-XXX  Rev: 658A
<4>  Type:   Sequential-Access                  ANSI SCSI revision: 02
<4>blk: queue c7f7ce14, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
<4>(scsi0:A:2): 7.812MB/s transfers (7.812MHz, offset 15)
<4>scsi0:A:0:0: Tagged Queuing enabled.  Depth 32
<7>sd_init()
<4>sd: allocated major 8
<7>sd_attach()
<7>sd: find_free_slot ...<7>sd: ... found 08:00
<4>Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
<7>sd_attach()
<7>sd_finish()
<7>sd_init_onedisk (0,0), sda 08:00
<4>SCSI device sda: 17916240 512-byte hdwr sectors (9173 MB)
<6>Partition check:
<6> sda: sda1 sda2 sda3
<4>reiserfs: found format "3.6" with standard journal
<4>reiserfs: checking transaction log (sd(8,3)) for (sd(8,3))
<4>reiserfs: using ordered data mode

I hope you can help me further.

> Further information is required, what kind of tape drive is it, is it
> internal or external, has it ever worked before? The more information
> you supply us the better we will be able to help you fix your problem.
> You may also include you /var/log/boot.msg file for trouble shooting
> purposes.
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