Hello,
On 1/19/2006 10:42 PM, Lance Brown wrote:
Arno Lehmann wrote:
...
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 tape drive's status.
Oh joy.... I missed this when I looked last time:
Here is a cut of the SCSI related kernel syslog messages starting with a
reboot of the server. After it came up, I tried to follow your
directions below. An attempt to 'mt -f /dev/nst1 eod' has hung up,
apparently forever.
...
[ Attempted to 'mt -f /dev/nst1 eod' at this point]
Jan 19 15:41:21 what kernel: Attached scsi generic sg1 at scsi2, channel
0, id 0, lun 0, type 8
Jan 19 15:41:21 what kernel: Attached scsi generic sg3 at scsi2, channel
0, id 2, lun 0, type 8
Jan 19 15:41:22 what kernel: sym53c895-0-<2,*>: target did not report SYNC.
Jan 19 15:41:22 what kernel: sym53c895-0-<2,*>: target did not report SYNC.
Jan 19 15:41:32 what kernel: sym53c895-0-<3,*>: FAST-40 WIDE SCSI 80.0
MB/s (25.0 ns, offset 31)
Jan 19 15:42:12 what kernel: st1: Block limits 1 - 16777215 bytes.
Jan 19 15:44:05 what kernel: st1: Mode 0 options: buffer writes: 1,
async writes: 1, read ahead: 1
Jan 19 15:44:05 what kernel: st1: can bsr: 0, two FMs: 0, fast mteom:
0, auto lock: 0,
Jan 19 15:44:05 what kernel: st1: defs for wr: 0, no block limits: 0,
partitions: 0, s2 log: 0
Jan 19 15:44:05 what kernel: st1: sysv: 0 nowait: 0
Jan 19 15:47:04 what kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout :
pid 4801, scsi2, channel 0, id 3, lun 0 Inquiry 00 00 00 38 00
Jan 19 15:47:04 what kernel: sym53c8xx_abort: pid=4801
serial_number=4802 serial_number_at_timeout=4802
Jan 19 15:47:34 what kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout :
pid 4831, scsi2, channel 0, id 3, lun 0 Inquiry 00 00 00 38 00
Jan 19 15:47:34 what kernel: sym53c8xx_abort: pid=4831
serial_number=4832 serial_number_at_timeout=4832
Jan 19 15:48:04 what kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout :
pid 4840, scsi2, channel 0, id 3, lun 0 Inquiry 00 00 00 38 00
Jan 19 15:48:04 what kernel: sym53c8xx_abort: pid=4840
serial_number=4841 serial_number_at_timeout=4841
Jan 19 15:48:34 what kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout :
pid 4850, scsi2, channel 0, id 3, lun 0 Inquiry 00 00 00 38 00
Jan 19 15:48:34 what kernel: sym53c8xx_abort: pid=4850
serial_number=4851 serial_number_at_timeout=4851
Jan 19 15:50:18 what kernel: sym53c895-0:3: message 6 sent on bad
reselection.
I expect the
Jan 19 15:41:22 what kernel: sym53c895-0-<2,*>: target did not report SYNC.
Jan 19 15:41:22 what kernel: sym53c895-0-<2,*>: target did not report SYNC.
entries and the aborts at the end are a Bad Thing(TM).
Definitely.
Tried a cold restart of all hardware and got the same errors trying to
go to EOD on this volume (Monthly-004)
...
I'm really starting to think I have a bad tape on my hands, since btape
with a different tape succeeds in all respects.
Good for you - replacing one tape is rather simple :-)
Arno
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