Any help here would be wonderful. tar will not work on my tape drive! Weirdness... Here is some background.
I recently purchased a new IBM TS2900 Autoloader: http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/storage/tape/ts2900/index.html I have hooked up this via an Adaptec SAS 58300: http://www.adaptec.com/en-US/support/sas/sas/SAS-58300/ After some rough patches getting the Adaptec card to even work. I built a custom kernel (2.6.27.4) with support for this card. I also upgraded my backup system to lenny because I needed some new functionality out of initramfs to load the firmware for this card. > cat /proc/scsi/scsi Attached devices: Host: scsi2 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 Vendor: IBM Model: ULT3580-HH4 Rev: 85V8 Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 Host: scsi2 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 01 Vendor: IBM Model: 3572-TL Rev: 0003 Type: Medium Changer ANSI SCSI revision: 03 > lsscsi [2:0:0:0] tape IBM ULT3580-HH4 85V8 /dev/st0 [2:0:0:1] mediumx IBM 3572-TL 0003 /dev/sch0 So far so good. > mtx -f /dev/sg3 status shows: Storage Changer /dev/sg3:1 Drives, 9 Slots ( 0 Import/Export ) Data Transfer Element 0:Empty Storage Element 1:Full :VolumeTag=389ADOL4 Storage Element 2:Full :VolumeTag=385ADOL4 Storage Element 3:Full :VolumeTag=386ADOL4 Storage Element 4:Empty Storage Element 5:Full :VolumeTag=387ADOL4 Storage Element 6:Empty Storage Element 7:Full :VolumeTag=388ADOL4 Storage Element 8:Empty Storage Element 9:Full :VolumeTag=CLNU94L1 Very nice. Let's move a tape into the drive. > mtx -f /dev/sg3 load 2 Loading media from Storage Element 2 into drive 0...done Ok. Now lets rewind the tape. > mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind No errors. Good. Do we have a tape in the drive? Let's make sure. > mt -f /dev/nst0 status SCSI 2 tape drive: File number=0, block number=0, partition=0. Tape block size 0 bytes. Density code 0x46 (LTO-4). Soft error count since last status=0 General status bits on (41010000): BOT ONLINE IM_REP_EN Looks good. Time for a sample backup. > cd /backup/scripts > ls -l total 44 -rwxr--r-- 1 root root 623 2006-11-14 03:14 backup2tape.sh -rwxr--r-- 1 root root 1862 2007-02-06 15:43 backupMichael.sh -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6763 2007-10-18 23:58 backupNetwork.sh -rwx------ 1 root root 3824 2008-08-26 20:36 backupNetworkTemp.sh -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1035 2008-01-01 20:03 backupVantageYE.sh -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 752 2006-10-24 19:18 exclude lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 2005-12-14 18:57 logs -> /var/log/backup -rwx------ 1 root root 7137 2008-10-04 19:41 newNetworkBackup.sh -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 2413 2007-01-04 00:04 testBackupCapitol.sh -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 874 2005-12-09 21:10 z_backupall > tar cvf /dev/nst0 . ./ ./exclude ./logs ./z_backupall ./backup2tape.sh ./backupNetwork.sh tar: /dev/nst0: Cannot write: Invalid argument tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now HUH? What happened? > dmesg | tail st0: Sense Key : Aborted Command [current] st0: Add. Sense: Initiator response timeout st0: Can't set default compression. > tail /var/log/syslog Oct 31 13:01:51 backup kernel: st0: Sense Key : Aborted Command [current] Oct 31 13:01:51 backup kernel: st0: Add. Sense: Initiator response timeout Oct 31 13:01:51 backup kernel: st0: Can't set default compression. Any thoughts on this? Is there some kind of SAS module I need to have installed? I should be able to use this SAS device just as I use any other SCSI device, correct? Thanks for your time. Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
