Hi,
08.11.2007 19:18,, Augusto Camarotti wrote::
> By the way, I just decided to use my gmail account for subscribing
> bacula-users. It`s much reliable than my organization e-mail which was
> giving me so much trouble. :D
>
> I have a Seagate Tape Driver DAT72.
> In my system it`s referenced as /dev/st0.
> So i configured my bacula-sd.conf this way :
>
> Device {
> Name = DDS-72 #
> Media Type = DDS-72
> Archive Device = /dev/st0
> AutomaticMount = yes; # when device opened, read it
> AlwaysOpen = no;
> RemovableMedia = yes;
> RandomAccess = no;
> # Changer Command = "/etc/bacula/mtx-changer %c %o %S %a %d"
> Changer Device = /dev/st0
Try /dev/sg0 or whatever raw SCSI device your tape drive is.
> AutoChanger = no
> # Enable the Alert command only if you have the mtx package loaded
> Alert Command = "sh -c 'tapeinfo -f %c |grep TapeAlert|cat'"
> # If you have smartctl, enable this, it has more info than tapeinfo
> # Alert Command = "sh -c 'smartctl -H -l error %c'"
> }
>
> But it was giving this erros using tapeinfo with that device (/dev/st0) :
>
> mtx: Request Sense: Long Report=yes
> mtx: Request Sense: Valid Residual=no
> mtx: Request Sense: Error Code=0 (Unknown?!)
> mtx: Request Sense: Sense Key=No Sense
> mtx: Request Sense: FileMark=no
> mtx: Request Sense: EOM=no
> mtx: Request Sense: ILI=no
> mtx: Request Sense: Additional Sense Code = 00
> mtx: Request Sense: Additional Sense Qualifier = 00
> mtx: Request Sense: BPV=no
> mtx: Request Sense: Error in CDB=no
> mtx: Request Sense: SKSV=no
> INQUIRY Command Failed
>
> And this was showing after each job of Bacula. Then I discover that my
> tape device have another name, /dev/sg4, that shows this when given to
> tapeinfo :
>
> Product Type: Tape Drive
> Vendor ID: 'SEAGATE '
> Product ID: 'DAT DAT72-052'
> Revision: 'A060'
> Attached Changer: No
> SerialNumber: 'HV07G3D'
> MinBlock:1
> MaxBlock:16777215
> SCSI ID: 6
> SCSI LUN: 0
> Ready: yes
> BufferedMode: yes
> Medium Type: 0x35
> Density Code: 0x47
> BlockSize: 0
> DataCompEnabled: yes
> DataCompCapable: yes
> DataDeCompEnabled: yes
> CompType: 0x20
> DeCompType: 0x20
> BOP: yes
> Block Position: 0
>
> So I change my storage configuration to that and I`ll be good?
>
> Device {
> Name = DDS-72 #
> Media Type = DDS-72
> Archive Device = /dev/st0
> AutomaticMount = yes; # when device opened, read it
> AlwaysOpen = no;
> RemovableMedia = yes;
> RandomAccess = no;
> # Changer Command = "/etc/bacula/mtx-changer %c %o %S %a %d"
> Changer Device = /dev/sg4
See above - this seems to be your tape drive, so it should be ok.
> AutoChanger = no
> # Enable the Alert command only if you have the mtx package loaded
> Alert Command = "sh -c 'tapeinfo -f %c |grep TapeAlert|cat'"
> # If you have smartctl, enable this, it has more info than tapeinfo
> # Alert Command = "sh -c 'smartctl -H -l error %c'"
> }
>
> Am I doing the correct thing? Why is that? Am I supposed to use /dev/sg4
> as my tape device? Cause i`m having problems with it, which I `ll
> explain in my next e-mail.
Yes. Because tapeinfo needs the SCSI generic device, not the tape
driver to talk to. No. And sure. :-)
Arno
> Regards,
>
> Augusto Camarotti
>
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