Hello folks
I'm struggling with a Sony AIT-2 internal tape drive, that has suddenly 
stopped working.  It's running on a Debian box, and coming up with 
errors such as the ones below.
Can someone point me to a more specific ide-tape sort of forum for 
asking about this?  Or is there someone here who would like to hear all 
the gory details?
cheers
Chris
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Sep  7 21:06:59 pc3 kernel: ide-tape: ht0: I/O error, pc =  a, key =  3, 
asc =  c, ascq =  0
Sep  7 21:07:02 pc3 last message repeated 396 times 
Sep  7 21:07:02 pc3 kernel: ide-tape: ht0: I/O error, pc = 10, key =  3, 
asc =  c, ascq =  0
Sep  7 21:07:02 pc3 last message repeated 2 times 
Sep  7 21:07:21 pc3 kernel: ide-tape: bug: tape->next_stage != NULL 
Sep  7 21:17:01 pc3 /USR/SBIN/CRON[27632]: (root) CMD (   run-parts 
--report /etc/cron.hourly)
Sep  7 21:24:14 pc3 kernel: hdb: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy } 
Sep  7 21:24:14 pc3 kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown 
Sep  7 21:24:14 pc3 kernel: hdb: DMA disabled 
Sep  7 21:24:14 pc3 kernel: hdb: ATAPI reset complete 
Sep  7 21:24:14 pc3 kernel: ide-tape: ht0: I/O error, pc =  8, key =  6, 
asc = 29, ascq =  0
Sep  7 21:24:14 pc3 kernel: ide-tape: bh == NULL in 
idetape_copy_stage_to_user
Sep  7 21:24:32 pc3 kernel: ide-tape: ht0: I/O error, pc =  8, key =  3, 
asc = 15, ascq =  2
Sep  7 21:24:36 pc3 last message repeated 451 times
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Chris Dennis                                  cgdennis@???
Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK