Arno Lehmann wrote:
> That said, the question is "Why does the SD need 4 minutes to find that
> there are no file marks on tape?"
>
> I don't know the answer.
>
> BUT I'd suggest that you do the following:
> - Check the system log for any tape or SCSI related errors. Use tapeinfo
> to see the tap
Kern Sibbald wrote:
> Below are a few guesses. They are a large part guesses because you didn't
> specify enough information: please see the Support page on the web site.
My mistake.
System Information:
Server:Dell PowerEdge 2650
OS:CentOS 3.6 (fully updated)
SCSI Card: LSI Logic /
I got this message in my logs from the backup run last night:
19-Jan 02:16 what-sd: Volume "Monthly-0004" previously written, moving
to end of data.
19-Jan 02:22 what-sd: What.2006-01-19_02.05.01 Error: I canot write on
Volume "Monthly-0004" because:
The number of files mismatch! Volume=0 Catalog=
Lance Brown wrote:
> btape from 1.38.4 succeeds with my tape library on a freshly installed
> CentOS 4 system. I had to swipe the SCSI card from my current CentOS 3
> backup server in order to test it so I'm not 100% sure it's C4 vs. C3,
> or just that a loose connection got
Lance Brown wrote:
> Lance Brown wrote:
>
>>I used the terminator that came with the new library, but I don't recall
>>switching it out for my old one. I'll give that a try.
>
>
> *grrr* No change in behaviour. Programs still hang on the last read()
>
Lance Brown wrote:
> I used the terminator that came with the new library, but I don't recall
> switching it out for my old one. I'll give that a try.
*grrr* No change in behaviour. Programs still hang on the last read()
system call.
Time to build a CentOS 4 box and see
Alan Brown wrote:
> As a really dumb (but non-obvious) question, have you tried swapping out
> the terminator?
I used the terminator that came with the new library, but I don't recall
switching it out for my old one. I'll give that a try.
--[Lance]
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Lance A. Brown
Senior Systems Programmer
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Rudolf Cejka wrote:
> Hello, maybe you can try different version of Linux, newer Bacula 1.38.x
> or/and cabling. I have Overland Neo 4200 with LTO-3 and FreeBSD 6.0
> and did not experience any problem like yours - and I think there are
> others with LTO-3 without problems independently on FreeBSD
Greetings,
I wrote a message titled 'Problem with LTO-3 drive' to the list a few
days ago but received no reply to it. Since then I've discovered some
new information.
I have a new Exabyte Magnum 1x7 autoloader with an IBM LTO-3 drive and
it appears I *have* to use fixed block sizes otherwise it
