I'm trying to get Amanda working with a Sony TSL-A300C AIT-1 autoloader (SCSI-based), but not having much luck. The tape drive and the robot are detected by the kernel and I can send mt(1) commands to the drive just fine:
scsi0: scanning scsi channel 5 [P1] for physical devices. Vendor: SONY Model: TSL-A300C Rev: L202 Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Vendor: SONY Model: TSL-A300C Rev: L202 Type: Medium Changer ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Attached scsi generic sg2 at scsi0, channel 5, id 4, lun 0, type 1 Attached scsi generic sg3 at scsi0, channel 5, id 4, lun 1, type 8 st: Version 20040403, fixed bufsize 32768, s/g segs 256 Attached scsi tape st0 at scsi0, channel 5, id 4, lun 0 st0: try direct i/o: yes (alignment 512 B), max page reachable by HBA 1048575 st0: Block limits 2 - 16777215 bytes. However, I can't seem to write a tape. amtapetype says: Estimate phase 1...amtapetype: could not write any data in this pass: short write and kernel dmesg output says: st0: Error 400f0 (sugg. bt 0x0, driver bt 0x0, host bt 0x4). st0: Error 4000c (sugg. bt 0x0, driver bt 0x0, host bt 0x4). And if I try to write a tape directly with tar(1), I get: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:pts/0 /home/jwm# tar cvf /dev/nst0 . ./ ./.bashrc ./.bash_profile ./.bash_history tar: /dev/nst0: Wrote only 0 of 10240 bytes tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now and dmesg says: st0: Error 400f0 (sugg. bt 0x0, driver bt 0x0, host bt 0x4). st0: Error 4000c (sugg. bt 0x0, driver bt 0x0, host bt 0x4). st0: Error on write filemark. The SCSI chain is properly terminated AFAICT, and the autoloader is the only thing attached to that channel. Am I missing something, or do I have a dead unit? thanks, john -- John Morrissey _o /\ ---- __o [EMAIL PROTECTED] _-< \_ / \ ---- < \, www.horde.net/ __(_)/_(_)________/ \_______(_) /_(_)__
