I'm not sure why the travan tape is not working properly.. you may want to upgrade to Redhat 7.3 for both driver issues, and security reasons..
can I say that again.. UPGRADE :) ---- as far as your system instability, the mdrecovery process is a program that monitors raid disks. it's only needed (if i remember right) when you have a raid disk fail, and it's required to do re-mirroring, or parity rebuilds. as to why it locks up at that point, is a difficult question.. it may just be stalled.. how long have you let it go before powering down the machine? it sounds to me like you have something odd going in the kernel.. if I remember right, 7.1 comes with either a 2.2, or a really old 2.4 kernel.. I suggest getting a copy of 7.3 from someplace like www.cheapbytes.com for $5, and upgrading the system. -ben On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, Trevor Fraser wrote: > Hi All, > > I've recently intalled a Travan 20GB tape drive ATAPI (IDE) (M/N: > STT320000A), and I'm running Linux 7.1 with Amanda 2.4.2p2. I'm yet to get > it to work. We are able to see the /dev/nht0 device and can rewind, etc... > We cannot amlabel or do amcheck. > > The software which comes with the tape drive only supports Microsoft Windows > and there is no mention of Linux in the documentation or on their website. I > plug the tape drive into a Windows machine and install backup-exec and it > works, but I had to first "media initialize." > > I am trying to label the tape using amlabel, with the tape device in the > config file set to nht0 instead of ht0, ie non-rewinding, but the message > received is: > > rewinding, reading label, no label found > rewinding, writing label archive1, checking label > amlabel: no label found, are you sure /dev/nht0 is non-rewinding? > > when I use amcheck, the message is: > ERROR: /dev/nht0: not an amanda tape > (expecting a new tape) > > What am I not seeing/checking? > > Where does Linux get the driver for the tape drive from if I haven't > installed the software that comes with it. Does the Red Hat package come > with a driver? The autodetect on startup detects a Seagate STT20000A, but on > the drive it says STT320000A. Am I way off ? Please Help! > > System Instability > ----------------- > The resultant problem since I've installed the tape drive is our Linux file > server is freezing up, forced rebooting results which is obviously a no-no. > > On shutdown, I see a message: > > Sending all processes the TERM signal... > Sending all processes the KILL signal... md: recovery thread got woken up.. > md: recovery thread finished... > mdrecoveryd(8) flushing signals. > > ?Is this of importance to me? The system often freezes at this point. > > The other message I receive comes up at random intivals, sometimes when the > tape's activity light is on with no activity is happening, and often causes > the computer to freeze: > > ide-tape: hdd: cleanup_module( ) called while still busy. > > Regards > Trevor Fraser > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
