Thanks, Gary for replying back. I used the /dev/nst0 as a shortcut when I typed the command and I use the /dev/tape/by-id/scsi-35000e111cc2d8001-nst in the bacula-sd.conf file just in case the tape drive name gets changed by Centos when the server gets rebooted (it tends to happen on rare occasions), so by using the dev/tape/by-id/ this assures bacula to always find the tape device name no matter what. Nonetheless,.running the tapeinfo command but this time using the /dev/tape/by-id outputs the same information:
[root@bacula02 ~]# tapeinfo -f /dev/tape/by-id/scsi-35000e111cc2d8001-nst Product Type: Tape Drive Vendor ID: 'IBM ' Product ID: 'ULTRIUM-HH8 ' Revision: 'N9M1' Attached Changer API: No SerialNumber: '1097012184' MinBlock: 1 MaxBlock: 8388608 SCSI ID: 1 SCSI LUN: 0 Ready: yes BufferedMode: yes Medium Type: 0x78 Density Code: 0x5c BlockSize: 0 DataCompEnabled: yes DataCompCapable: yes DataDeCompEnabled: yes CompType: 0xff DeCompType: 0xff BOP: yes Block Position: 0 Partition 0 Remaining Kbytes: -1 Partition 0 Size in Kbytes: -1 ActivePartition: 0 EarlyWarningSize: 0 NumPartitions: 1 MaxPartitions: 3 Partition0: 1071 Partition1: 57857 Partition2: 0 Partition3: 0 -------------- This problem is a weird one, because like I said in my previous email, I'm able to tar files directly to the tape drive, i.e. tar -cvf /dev/nst0 and I'm able to extract them back. If you notice while running the btape test, it appears that the command is able to write to the drive the first file, then it reads the last block back without a problem, but when it tries to write a second time, then it fails: 12-Apr 15:59 btape JobId 0: Re-read of last block succeeded. <----------- *btape: btape.c:1156-0 Error writing block to device.* Is as if the drive is not writing the correct EOF bit at the end of the file transfer. Also, there's another command that outputs the drive status: [root@bacula02 ~]# mt -f /dev/tape/by-id/scsi-35000e111cc2d8001-nst status SCSI 2 tape drive: File number=0, block number=0, partition=0. Tape block size 0 bytes. Density code 0x5c (no translation). Soft error count since last status=0 General status bits on (41010000): BOT ONLINE IM_REP_EN Thanks again. Hector B. On Tue, Apr 12, 2022 at 7:20 PM Gary R. Schmidt <g...@mcleod-schmidt.id.au> wrote: > On 13/04/2022 09:46, Hector Barrera wrote: > > Hello Gentlemen, > > > > I wonder if any of you had a chance to make an IBM LTO8 Tape Drive work > > with Bacula 11.0.1 > > > > Previously we had an IBM LTO7 that worked great, but this new drive is > > not working as expected, the btape test function throws out an error. > > > > I followed the Bacula chapter: "Testing Your Tape Drive With Bacula" > > > > Here's some information about our setup: > > > > *_Tape Drive:_* > > > > [root@bacula02 tmp]# tapeinfo -f /dev/nst0 > > > ArchiveDevice = "/dev/tape/by-id/scsi-35000e111cc2d8001-nst" > > You are referring to things using different names. > > What happens if you change them to be consistent? > > Cheers, > Gary B-) > > > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users >
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