It seems I'm having a little more success. I managed to get the
onstream drive working with scsi emulation. I have to comment
out a chunk of code in the ide-scsi.c kernel module that detected
and denied the di-30. Now backups and restores work with amanda.
I still get kernel messages about an atapi reset but doesn't seem
to affect it.
Current I testing it by backing up 4 windoze machines. I have a
5 meg, 800 meg, 1.2 gig, and 1.8 gig. As it said the backup goes
off with out a hitch, and then I do an amrestore and the tar
images all are the correct size. When I untar them the 5 meg and
800 meg work fine. The 1.2 gig and 1.8 gig I get a error message
'tar: Skipping to next header' and 'tar: Exit delayed from
previous errors' Currently in my amanda.conf the chunksize I
have set is 2 gigs. I was thinking of changing that to say 800
megs to see if it would help.
I'm going to go ahead and upgrade the kernel to 2.2.19. I tried
going to 2.4.3 but didn't have much luck with that. Do I need a
2.4 kernel?
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Jason Clark
OpenCom, Inc.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gernot Schreib" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 1:58 AM
Subject: Re: Amanda and Onstream DI-30
>
> "Jason Clark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Well, I've looked through the archives and it appears that
some
> > people are having success with this driver. I am not one of
them.
>
> > I'm currently running redhat 6.2 with a 2.2.16 kernel. I can
get
> > the drive to work with the ide-tape module patched according
to
> > onstream and access it as /dev/ht0 and /dev/nht0 and it
works. I
> > can use mt and give commands to the drive write data restore
data
> > etc... Any how when I do an backup with amanda it doesn't
work. It
> > seems to write but it won't restore.
>
> Use a newer kernel and have a look at
> http://linux1.onstream.nl/
>
> Gernot.
>
>
> --
> Gernot Schreib
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.stochastik.uni-passau.de/~schreib
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