Hi list This is not really a bacula question.. but somehow really related.
How common is it to have a "broken" LTO-tape? I've (in like 3-4 years working with LTO) never seen this, but it looks like a borken tape. Last night when bacula should recycle a tape it didnt success, the tape never got loaded sucessfully by the "mt -f /dev/nst0 status" command, it returns just "input/output" error. The problem is that this raises some doubt about all our shelf-tapes.. so have I just been really unlucky, or could there be other reasons to this behaviour. j...@bacula:~$ sudo mtx -f /dev/changer load 102 1 Loading media from Storage Element 102 into drive 1...done j...@bacula:~$ sudo dd if=/dev/nst1 of=/dev/nul dd: opening `/dev/nst1': Input/output error j...@bacula:~$ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/nst1 dd: opening `/dev/nst1': Input/output error j...@bacula:~$ sudo mt -f /dev/nst1 status /dev/nst1: Input/output error (Same drive .. just a functional tape) j...@bacula:~$ sudo mtx -f /dev/changer unload 102 1 Unloading drive 1 into Storage Element 102...done j...@bacula:~$ sudo mt -f /dev/nst1 status SCSI 2 tape drive: File number=-1, block number=-1, partition=0. Tape block size 0 bytes. Density code 0x0 (default). Soft error count since last status=0 General status bits on (50000) j...@bacula:~$ sudo mt -f /dev/nst1 status SCSI 2 tape drive: File number=0, block number=0, partition=0. Tape block size 0 bytes. Density code 0x44 (LTO-3). Soft error count since last status=0 General status bits on (41010000): BOT ONLINE IM_REP_EN Now.. This is pure luck, that I didnt have to use this for anything, it was found during recycling of the incremental pool so the actual tape should just have been overwritten anyway. But it makes me think a bit. -- Jesper ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
