Josh Fisher wrote:
> I have occasional problems with Sony AIT drives on 2940UW controllers. I
> believe it's the tape drive that gets confused, because when it happens,
> ("it" being the drive stops communicating), even a reboot of the server
> doesn't fix the problem when the drive is left powered on. Power cycling
> the drive does fix the problem. I've tried different SCSI cables,
> terminators, etc. I believe the culprit to be Sony's firmware. It may be
> possible to work around this by tweaking aic7xxx module parameters. I
> haven't gotten around to trying any yet, but have considered trying
> aic7xxx=periodic_otag and/or increasing the tag queue depth for that LUN.
>
> Anyway, in my case, I don't see how it could be a bacula problem. Seems
> to be SCSI related.
Have you checked for updated firmware for the drive? Several times I've
seen "Improved SCSI compliance" or other such catch-all terms in the
changelog for drive firmware updates.
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Russell Howe
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