Good point. This drive has been in use since mid June 2025, when it replaced an Ultium 6 drive that failed after some years of use.
This problem has occurred twice. Today was the second time. Unfortunately, today two power cycles on the server failed to resolve the problem. Yes, I think it is probably a hardware problem. I was fishing for hints on whether it was more likely to be the HBA, the drive, or the cable connecting them. My original post was sent before I had the chance to cycle power on the server. Regards, Ken On Thursday, 2 Oct 2025, Rob wrote: From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, October 2, 2025 7:16 PM To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected]: Re: [Bacula-users] Writes sometimes stall on Ultrium 7 drive Ken, I wonder if this could be a hardware issue with the drive. I'm guessing this drive has been in production with bacula for some time. Please correct me if I'm wrong. How frequently has this issue occurred? I am curious what the btape tests at the link below show. Please be advised that these tests are data destructive, so perform them with a scratch tape, preferably one not labeled by bacula (the existing label will be wiped by the test). https://www.bacula.org/15.0.x-manuals/en/problems/Testing_Your_Tape_Drive_Wit.html#SECTION003200000000000000000 Robert Gerber 402-237-8692 [email protected] On Thu, Oct 2, 2025, 5:52 PM <[email protected]> wrote: Configuration: Debian 12.11 mpt2sas reports LSISAS2008 HBA HP StoreEver LTO – 7 internal tape drive Bacula 9.6.7-7 (from Debian pkg) The observed symptom is that reads work as expected, but writes appear to stall indefinitely. So, for example, a backup job never makes any progress. Or an attempt to label a tape does not complete. Reads (such as needed to mount a tape) seem to work fine. A reboot did not seem to help. A power cycle did make it work again. Has anyone seen similar issues? If so, what resolved your issue. Ken _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
