[Bacula-users] Travan 40 (Seagate Hornet, STT3401A)

[Greg Cockburn]

Hi list,

has anyone actually got one of these to work with bacula? This is a drive out of a Dell Machine (no idea what), and the drive was hardly used.

This is an ATAPI model, set to slave, with no other devices on the IDE controller.

I have wasted many hours now trying to get this drive to work with bacula, without success.

tar works fine, and so does the first test in "btape test".

But, then the second test fails.

I have gone through many iterations of bacula-sd.conf, to try and make this work.  I have tried the tape drive in two different machines, I tried upgrading the firmware (to the same version...).

I upgraded bacula in debian sarge to 1.36.3 from sf.net.

I have tried the ide-tape driver, and the ide-scsi driver.

I have discovered one thing, don't boot the machine with a tape in the drive, or nothing will work!

I have been through this list archive and tried all the suggestions.


Is it hopeless?  Is this drive just so dumb, you have to question why anyone would make it?

Or am I dumb, and have missed the key configuration variable in bacula that will make this drive magically spring to life?


Any/All help will be appreciated, before I go bald before my time.


btape output:

=== Write, rewind, and position test ===

I'm going to write 1000 records and an EOF
then write 1000 records and an EOF, then rewind,
and position to a few blocks and verify that it is correct.

This is an *essential* feature ...

btape: btape.c:898 Wrote 1000 blocks of 32668 bytes.
btape: btape.c:465 Wrote 1 EOF to /dev/nst0
btape: btape.c:914 Wrote 1000 blocks of 32668 bytes.
btape: btape.c:465 Wrote 1 EOF to /dev/nst0
btape: btape.c:923 Rewind OK.
Reposition to file:block 0:4
btape: btape.c:1003 Bad data in record. Expected 5, got 1 at byte 0. Test failed!

dmesg output:

Additional sense indicates Invalid command operation code
st0: Error with sense data: Current st09:00: sense key Illegal Request
Additional sense indicates Invalid command operation code
st0: Error with sense data: Info fld=0x0, Current st09:00: sense key Illegal Request
Additional sense indicates Invalid command operation code

bacula-sd.conf:

Device {
 Name = Travan40
 Description = "Travan drive on Linux"
 Media Type = Travan40
 Archive Device = /dev/nst0
 AutomaticMount = yes
 AlwaysOpen = yes
 Fast Forward Space File = no
 Hardware End of Medium = no
 Minimum Block Size = 32768
 Maximum Block Size = 32768
 Block Positioning = no
 BSF at EOM = yes
 Backward Space Record = no
 Backward Space File = no
 TWO EOF = yes
}



TIA, Greg.