RE: Problem with Amcheck

[Shane T. Ferguson]

Title: RE: Problem with Amcheck

Strange that a hardware problem would occur only after rebooting the server (or perhaps coincidence *shrugs*). This was actually a new tape drive that was sent to us from Exabyte after we shipped back a damaged one few months back.

 

Everything seems to look ok here:

 

[bin@mail sbin]$ ls -l /dev/*st0
crw-rw----   1 bin      disk       9, 128 May  5  1998 /dev/nst0
crw-rw----   1 bin      disk       9,   0 May  5  1998 /dev/st0

 

Thanks for the help!

 

Shane

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Bort, Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2000 1:26 PM
To: 'Shane T. Ferguson'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Amanda-Users
Subject: RE: Problem with Amcheck

Check to make sure the devices are set up correctly. For example, here's what I get from ls -l /dev/*st0:

crw-rw----    2 root     disk       9, 128 May  5  1998 nst0
crw-rw----    1 root     disk       9,   0 May  5  1998 st0

If that looks right, It's time to suspect the hardware. Do you have another one you can swap for it?

-----Original Message-----
From: Shane T. Ferguson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2000 12:20 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Amanda-Users
Subject: RE: Problem with Amcheck

Looks like a hardware problem. Is there anything else I can check before
coming to this conclusion?

[bin@mail sbin]$ mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind
/dev/nst0: Input/output error

-----Original Message-----
From: John R. Jackson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2000 1:13 PM
To: Shane T. Ferguson
Cc: Bort, Paul; Amanda-Users
Subject: Re: Problem with Amcheck

>... notice above
>it detects scsi tape st0 (not nst0) -- would this be an issue?

No.

What happens if you stick an Amanda tape in the drive and do this:

  $ mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind
  $ dd if=/dev/nst0 bs=32k

You should see the (ASCII) Amanda label.

>Shane

John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]