I hope someone can help me here, I have an AMD 1700+ running Suse 9.0 professional. I boot of IDE drives, but I have a Adaptec 29160 Scsi card. The only thing connected is a Quantum DLT4500 5 slot mini dlt tape unit.

I'm using mtx to control the device. mtx -f /dev/sg1 unload mtx -f /dev/sg1 status etc. All the commands work except for one: mtx -f /dev/sg1 load 3 The tape loads and rewinds but sends back an error :; Destination Element 16 already full. and the scsi bus resets. I have posted in quite a few news groups but no success yet, changed cards, change lead, terminators etc. I can read and write to the tape drive no problem... Someone suggested that its the current build of the kernel and the re-complied a new one, but I got scared off at this. Any suggestions: Thanks Dean

From your short description, it seems that if you can read/write to the integrated tape drive, itself, but are having problems with the library functions, this could be something as simple as verifying the SCSI ID of

Hi Dean, I don't know if you've got the documentation already, but if you Google for "dlt4000_dlt4500_dlt_7000_manual.pdf" (exactly as spelled here) you should find a comprehensive manual for that library subsystem. the robotics controller -- which (I think) is separate from the tape drive controller. HTH - Carl - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - C. E. Hartung Business Development & Support Services Dover Foxcroft, Maine, USA http://www.cehartung.com