[arch-general] Unable to use tape drive

[Vitor Garcia]

On Wed, 24 Aug 2011 16:51:16 +0200
Jan de Groot <jan at jgc.homeip.net> wrote:

> Please paste your dmesg output somewhere. The SCSI controller that
> connects the drive is probably not even recognized.

dmesg | grep -i tape

shows nothing

dmesg | grep -i scsi

shows nothing too.

As the device is conected to a sata port, I have tried: 

dmesg | grep -i sata

ata1: SATA link down (SStatus 1 SControl 310)
ata1: limiting SATA link speed to 1.5 Gbps
(The 2 above lines repeats hundreds of times)


But I'm not sure it has any connection to the tape drive.


Any ideas?



Thanks for the help!