Re: [Bacula-users] Creating a Volume on a tape times out

2009-09-18 Thread Watson, Joe
escher [mailto:dresche...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, September 18, 2009 10:10 AM To: Watson, Joe; bacula-users Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Creating a Volume on a tape times out Reply Dmesg | grep scsi [1.182331] scsi0 : ata_piix [1.182435] scsi1 : ata_piix [2.478747] scsi2 : ata_piix [2.478823]

Re: [Bacula-users] Creating a Volume on a tape times out

2009-09-18 Thread John Drescher
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 10:47 AM, Watson, Joe wrote: > > i couldnt get the tape i was using out of the drive and our drive is at the > back of the machine so i had to fiddle with it to get it to move the tape > back. Sometimes (less than 1 time per 3 months) I see this with my archive. And the

Re: [Bacula-users] Creating a Volume on a tape times out

2009-09-18 Thread Watson, Joe
will see if it works. -Original Message- From: John Drescher [mailto:dresche...@gmail.com] Sent: Fri 9/18/2009 8:57 AM To: Watson, Joe; bacula-users Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Creating a Volume on a tape times out On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 9:28 AM, Watson, Joe wrote: > I get the same er

Re: [Bacula-users] Creating a Volume on a tape times out

2009-09-18 Thread John Drescher
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 9:28 AM, Watson, Joe wrote: > I get the same error on /dev/st0 that I get with /dev/nst0. > Did you try rebooting / restarting the archive? Are there any errors in your dmesg about scsi or mt? Are you using an older kernel? If so can you update that? John -

Re: [Bacula-users] Creating a Volume on a tape times out

2009-09-17 Thread John Drescher
> My email client I use does it on top sorry, but here is my output > No problem. > > mt: /dev/nst0: rmtioctl failed: Input/output error > > That was for: mt -f /dev/nst0 status If so this is really bad. It is essential that mt works with your tape drive Does mt -f /dev/st0 status work? If

Re: [Bacula-users] Creating a Volume on a tape times out

2009-09-17 Thread Watson, Joe
-Original Message- From: John Drescher [mailto:dresche...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2009 4:40 PM To: Watson, Joe Cc: bacula-users Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Creating a Volume on a tape times out On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 5:32 PM, Watson, Joe wrote: > I think this

Re: [Bacula-users] Creating a Volume on a tape times out

2009-09-17 Thread John Drescher
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 5:32 PM, Watson, Joe wrote: > I think this got side tracked I know now why the status doesn't work on the > tape drive but only on the autochanger. However I am trying to trouble shoot > the tape drive because I cant get it working with bacula. I run the btape > test whi

Re: [Bacula-users] Creating a Volume on a tape times out

2009-09-17 Thread Watson, Joe
number. I can only assume the tape is in the drive. -Original Message- From: John Drescher [mailto:dresche...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2009 4:20 PM To: Watson, Joe; bacula-users Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Creating a Volume on a tape times out On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 4:

Re: [Bacula-users] Creating a Volume on a tape times out

2009-09-17 Thread John Drescher
READ ELEMENT STATUS Command Failed >> >> I did some googling and found that the additional sense code is "Occurs >> when the command operation code received by the device is not >> supported." >> >> >> >> >> -Original Message- >>

Re: [Bacula-users] Creating a Volume on a tape times out

2009-09-17 Thread Watson, Joe
0 -Original Message- From: John Drescher [mailto:dresche...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2009 3:56 PM To: Watson, Joe Cc: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Creating a Volume on a tape times out On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 4:30 PM, Watson, Joe wrote: > I

Re: [Bacula-users] Creating a Volume on a tape times out

2009-09-17 Thread John Drescher
l Message- > From: Watson, Joe [mailto:isjoe...@oklahomacounty.org] > Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2009 11:51 AM > Cc: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Creating a Volume on a tape times out > > > I put in brand new tapes is there something I am m

Re: [Bacula-users] Creating a Volume on a tape times out

2009-09-17 Thread Watson, Joe
evice. -Original Message- From: Alex Chekholko [mailto:ch...@pcbi.upenn.edu] Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2009 10:50 AM To: Watson, Joe Cc: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Creating a Volume on a tape times out Hi Joe, Before dealing with bacula, make sure

Re: [Bacula-users] Creating a Volume on a tape times out

2009-09-17 Thread Watson, Joe
From: Alex Chekholko [mailto:ch...@pcbi.upenn.edu] Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2009 10:50 AM To: Watson, Joe Cc: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Creating a Volume on a tape times out Hi Joe, Before dealing with bacula, make sure you understand how to use the commands &#

Re: [Bacula-users] Creating a Volume on a tape times out

2009-09-17 Thread Alex Chekholko
ngmar.com] > Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 12:55 PM > To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Creating a Volume on a tape times out > > Watson, Joe wrote: > > With lsscsi I never find a device for /dev/nst0 is why I went with > > /dev/sg0 is

Re: [Bacula-users] Creating a Volume on a tape times out

2009-09-16 Thread Watson, Joe
en I try mounting it after I changed the tape to /dev/nst0 -Original Message- From: Mark Nienberg [mailto:gm...@tippingmar.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 12:55 PM To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Creating a Volume on a tape times out Watso

Re: [Bacula-users] Creating a Volume on a tape times out

2009-09-16 Thread Mark Nienberg
Watson, Joe wrote: > With lsscsi I never find a device for /dev/nst0 is why I went with > /dev/sg0 is it possible bacula is expecting the latter and resolves it > on its own somehow? > > This is the output from lsscsi -g > [4:0:4:0]tapeHP Ultrium 4-SCSI W24W /dev/st0 /dev/sg0 > [

Re: [Bacula-users] Creating a Volume on a tape times out

2009-09-16 Thread Watson, Joe
sent. -Original Message- From: Mark Nienberg [mailto:gm...@tippingmar.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2009 12:12 PM To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Creating a Volume on a tape times out Watson, Joe wrote: > Trying to label the tapes I have with Label Bar

Re: [Bacula-users] Creating a Volume on a tape times out

2009-09-16 Thread Watson, Joe
, 2009 12:12 PM To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Creating a Volume on a tape times out Watson, Joe wrote: > Trying to label the tapes I have with Label Barcodes on bconsole and it > errors out every time. It times out every time I try labeling a volume >

Re: [Bacula-users] Creating a Volume on a tape times out

2009-09-15 Thread Mark Nienberg
Watson, Joe wrote: > Trying to label the tapes I have with Label Barcodes on bconsole and it > errors out every time. It times out every time I try labeling a volume > on a tape. In the section: Device { Name = "Ultrium 4-SCSI" Look at the line: Archive Device = /dev/sg0 It is likely tha