Darrell May wrote:
> more of a H/W then S/W issue. I bet a reboot clears your problem
> but then you have to determine why it is occurring.
Seems to have done it--at least sort of. Now, instead of the message
that the tape isn't loaded, I'm back to the I/O errors.
I get _lots_ of these two messages:
Mar 31 20:15:40 e-smith kernel: st0: Error with sense data: [valid=0]
Info fld=0x0, Current st09:00: sense key Illegal Request
Mar 31 20:15:40 e-smith kernel: Additional sense indicates Invalid field
in cdb
I also get some others when I run taper, but none of them seem to come
up when I'm using /sbin/e-smith/backup. I also get an occasional "Error
on write filemark." I have e-smith-flexbackup 1.2.0-05 and
e-smith-backup 1.2.0-11 installed. Here's what gets logged when the
aha1542 and st modules are loaded:
Mar 31 20:10:03 e-smith kernel: st: bufsize 32768, wrt 30720, max
buffers 5, s/g segs 16.
Mar 31 20:10:03 e-smith kernel: Configuring Adaptec (SCSI-ID 7) at
IO:330, IRQ 10, DMA priority 7
Mar 31 20:10:03 e-smith kernel: scsi0 : Adaptec 1542
Mar 31 20:10:03 e-smith kernel: scsi : 1 host.
Mar 31 20:10:04 e-smith kernel: Vendor: CONNER Model:
CTT8000-S Rev: 1.17
Mar 31 20:10:04 e-smith kernel: Type:
Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Mar 31 20:10:05 e-smith kernel: Detected scsi tape st0 at scsi0, channel
0, id 3, lun 0
[root@e-smith home]# mt -t /dev/st0 status
SCSI 2 tape drive:
File number=0, block number=0, partition=0.
Tape block size 0 bytes. Density code 0x44 (unknown to this mt).
Soft error count since last status=0
General status bits on (41010000):
BOT ONLINE IM_REP_EN
If I try it with a different tape, one which was known to work
recently:
[root@e-smith home]# mt -t /dev/st0 status
SCSI 2 tape drive:
File number=0, block number=0, partition=0.
Tape block size 1024 bytes. Density code 0x44 (unknown to this mt).
Soft error count since last status=0
General status bits on (41010000):
BOT ONLINE IM_REP_EN
Only difference is in the tape block size, but I'm not sure why the
first would be giving a block size of 0. Same results with both tapes,
though, as far as attempting to back up is concerned.
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Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy
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