Hi, I have been using RH9 as a file, print and backup server on my home network. I have done a clean install of Fedora Core 1 and am now having a problem with writing to the tape drive. Since my RH9 install was performing as expected before the Core 1 install I don't think I have a hardware/configuration problem. Here's the rundown.

Celeron 800MHz, 256MB RAM, 20GB HD (partioned: /boot, /, /home, /swap), HP Colorado IDE tape drive (Travan) connected on IDE2 as a slave.

The RH9 install used "/dev/st0" to write to the tape drive by way of scsi-emulation, I think right from first boot. My Fedora Core install seems to access the tape drive as"/dev/ht0" but when I run "dump 0uf /dev/ht0 /home" I get:

[root@localhost root]# dump 0uf /dev/ht0 /home
DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Mon Jan 5 02:19:53 1998
DUMP: Dumping /dev/hdb1 (/home) to /dev/ht0
DUMP: Excluding inode 8 (journal inode) from dump
DUMP: Excluding inode 7 (resize inode) from dump
DUMP: Label: /home DUMP: Writing 10 Kilobyte records
DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files]
DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories]
DUMP: estimated 3382 blocks.
DUMP: Volume 1 started with block 1 at: Mon Jan 5 02:20:01 1998
DUMP: dumping (Pass III) [directories]
DUMP: write error 20 blocks into volume 1: Input/output error
DUMP: Do you want to rewrite this volume?: ("yes" or "no")

I ran the following commands: rmmod ide-tape, modprobe ide-scsi and then,

[root@localhost root]# dump 0uf /dev/st0 /home
DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Mon Jan 5 02:26:10 1998
DUMP: Dumping /dev/hdb1 (/home) to /dev/st0
DUMP: Excluding inode 8 (journal inode) from dump
DUMP: Excluding inode 7 (resize inode) from dump
DUMP: Label: /home DUMP: Writing 10 Kilobyte records
DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files]
DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories]
DUMP: estimated 3382 blocks.
DUMP: Volume 1 started with block 1 at: Mon Jan 5 02:26:16 1998
DUMP: dumping (Pass III) [directories]
DUMP: write error 50 blocks into volume 1: Input/output error
DUMP: Do you want to rewrite this volume?: ("yes" or "no") n
DUMP: Do you want to start the next tape?: ("yes" or "no") n
DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted.

I am admittedly a newbie, but I don't recall having these problems getting my RH9 install to do this, using the same machine! Any ideas?