Hi!
> I'm not sure where the problem is, so I suggest a few steps to find what's
> working and what's not.
> First see if the Tapedrive is found at all. Cat /proc/scsi/scsi and see if
> you find a device of type Sequential-Access like this:
cat /proc/scsi/scsi brings:
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 08 Lun: 00
Vendor: QUANTUM Model: DLT8000 Rev: 0119
Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 09 Lun: 00
Vendor: OVERLAND Model: LXB Rev: 0518
Type: Medium Changer ANSI SCSI revision: 02
root@fileserver:/var/log >
> Then check if the st driver is loaded and has found the tapedrive. Make
> sure that the module is loaded (if st is a module, do a 'modprobe st') and
> check the kernel logs for something like:
> Detected scsi tape st0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 3, lun 0
> st: bufsize 32768, wrt 30720, max init. buffers 4, s/g segs 16.
This is a part of /var/log/boot.msg
<4>Detected scsi tape st0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 8, lun 0
<6>(scsi0:0:9:0) Synchronous at 20.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 15.
<4> Vendor: OVERLAND Model: LXB Rev: 0518
<4> Type: Medium Changer ANSI SCSI revision: 02
<4>Detected scsi generic sgh at scsi0, channel 0, id 9, lun 0
<4>scsi : detected 1 SCSI tape 1 SCSI cdrom 5 SCSI disks total.
<4>sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 0x/0x caddy
<6>Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.56
> Check if /dev/st0 and /dev/nst0 are correct:
> crw-rw---- 1 root tape 9, 128 Jul 21 1998 /dev/nst0
> crw-rw---- 1 root tape 9, 0 Jul 21 1998 /dev/st0
ls -l /dev/nst*
root@fileserver:/dev > ls -l /dev/nst0
crw-r--r-- 1 amanda disk 9, 128 Apr 27 07:50 /dev/nst0
root@fileserver:/dev >
ls -l /dev/st0
crw-rw---- 1 root disk 9, 0 Nov 8 1999 /dev/st0
root@fileserver:/dev >
> Run 'mt -f /dev/st0 status'. If this works all right (i.e. you don't get
> error messages like mt: /dev/st0: No such file or directory or
> /dev/st0: No such device or address) then the OS and the tapedrive are
> working fine and your problem is an Amanda problem :)
mt -f /dev/st0
mt: /dev/st0: the device is busy (Das Gerät oder die Ressource ist belegt)
root@fileserver:/dev >
Bevor i installed an new SCSI-Hard Drive, the system works fine.
After this installation the system don't work.
Is the device nst0 damaged?
Bye Juergen
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