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I remember that, but I think it is a different problem.  Mine appears unrelated:

$ sudo mt -f /dev/nrsa0 status
mt: /dev/nrsa0: Invalid argument
(sa0:sym0:0:5:0): unable to set fixed blocksize to 1024

eric


On Friday, September 01, 2000 3:01 PM, murphree1@ispchannel.com [SMTP:murphree1@ispchannel.com] wrote:
> 
> >I don't know if I should post this here or on the scsi list, but I'm sure 
> >I'll be told if I'm wrong.  I've been having a problem with my tape drive 
> >and I have a solution, I just don't know if it's the correct solution.  I'm 
> >running 4.1 stable and have a drive that gets recognized as a Tandberg TDC 
> >3800 (see dmesg output that follows) with DC6525 tapes.  I have scsi and sa 
> >in the kernel and everything set up correctly, but whenever I try to do 
> >anything with the tape drive I get an error.
> >
> >$ sudo mt status
> >mt: /dev/nsa0: Invalid argument
> >(sa0:sym0:0:5:0): unable to set fixed blocksize to 1024
> 
> Reported this a few weeks ago and it's still broken.
> Use 'mt -f /dev/nrsa0 status' and it will work. The
> 'dev/nsa0' comes from a define in mtio.h 
> It used to work...



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