Hi list, i'm trying to get my Seagate STT20000A IDE Travan Tapedrive to work with bacula-1.36.3 with no success. I think this should be possible, but i can't figure out the right parameters for this drive.
I tried both the native ide-tape driver and the ide-scsi/st drivers for this tape. When using the ide-tape driver, the first test from btapes test command works fine (writing 1000 records, EOF, 1000 recs, EOF, verify). But the second one, gives me io errors when positioning the tape. Kernel log shows me a MTIO command 24 not supportet error, which isn't supported by the native ide-tape driver, as mentioned in the drivers sources. Even the Block Positioning = no directive doesn't help here. When using the ide-scsi/st drivers, it seems btape writes the data correctly to the tape, but can't verify them, with >>Wanted ID: "BB02", got ""<< error message. So this would be a blocksize problem as mentioned in the manual. But i can't find the right settings for this. tapeinfo gives me a blocksize of 576, mt status a blocksize of 512 and the ide-scsi driver reports fixed bufsize 32768. The first value as min and max blocksize doesn't work. Using this value gives me io errors even when writing data. Using 32768 as the fixed blocksize gives another Wanted ID: "BB02" ... error. With 512 as the blocksize, btape seems to write the data correctly, but fails to verify them with btape: btape.c:811 Rewind OK. 1000 blocks re-read correctly. btape: btape.c:836 Bad data in record. Expected 1001, got 1000 at byte 0. Test failed! Changing some of the other Options also doesnt't help. Maybe someone got such a drive working with bacula and can post me the right config section. Buying a new DLT or DAT drive is no option, as i have this drive with several tapes. The capacity is sufficient for my home office, and new drives and tapes are too expensive for the moment. Thanks in advance for any help, Sascha Jopen ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
