Sorry for the delay, we had a server go down. Somewhere in the last few messages, the things I tried must have shaken something loose. Now, the tape drive shows up in /proc/scsi/scsi, and the device /dev/st0 exists. I now hold in my hot little hands the first tape backup of this system. (It was a different one that went down, BTW.)
Now comes the real worry. It works, but I don't know why. If you have any insights as to what might have changed, let me know. The initial problem seems to have been that the aic7xxx module didn't load. After loading it manually, the st module loaded and the rest of the stuff appeared. Now it seems to be loading itself. I'd really like to know why it wasn't loading before and why it's loading now. What controls the loading of modules? Again, thanks for your continued help. -Paul >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/17/02 06:19PM >>> Paul Weber wrote: >Here's the output from the various checks: > ># cat /proc/scsi/scsi >Attached devices: >Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 > Vendor: DELL Model: PERCRAID Mirror Rev: 0001 > Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 >Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 05 Lun: 00 > Vendor: ARCHIVE Model: Python 04106-XXX Rev: 735B > Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 > ># cat /proc/interrupts > CPU0 CPU1 > 0: 16155163 15826058 IO-APIC-edge timer > 1: 267 268 IO-APIC-edge keyboard > 2: 0 0 XT-PIC cascade > 5: 0 0 IO-APIC-level usb-ohci > 8: 1 0 IO-APIC-edge rtc > 12: 1236 1267 IO-APIC-edge PS/2 Mouse > 14: 1817051 1673203 IO-APIC-edge ide0 > 20: 56327201 55696969 IO-APIC-level aic7xxx > 21: 15 15 IO-APIC-level aic7xxx > 28: 221337 216238 IO-APIC-level eth0 > 30: 1229823 1232718 IO-APIC-level aacraid >NMI: 0 0 >LOC: 31980511 31980510 >ERR: 0 >MIS: 0 > ># ps ax | grep mt > 3509 ? D 0:00 mt -f /dev/st0 stat >15834 pts/2 S 0:00 grep mt > >Note the mt command is still running from yesterday. > > > Hmmm. Could you do a 'dmesg | grep scsi' and let me know what it says? Also, an 'lspci' ? Is this a new drive, or has it been working on another machine? Can you test it on another machine to verify it's working? I have a symlink for /dev/tape to /dev/st0, and mt stat comes back immediately for me: # mt stat SCSI 2 tape drive: File number=0, block number=0, partition=0. Tape block size 512 bytes. Density code 0x13 (DDS (61000 bpi)). Soft error count since last status=0 General status bits on (41010000): BOT ONLINE IM_REP_EN # mt -f /dev/st0 stat SCSI 2 tape drive: File number=0, block number=0, partition=0. Tape block size 512 bytes. Density code 0x13 (DDS (61000 bpi)). Soft error count since last status=0 General status bits on (41010000): BOT ONLINE IM_REP_EN One more thing: what does 'uname -r' return? > > _______________________________________________ Seawolf-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list _______________________________________________ Seawolf-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list
