In continuation to my previous problem, I have tried only having one tape drive installed at a time, and I have switched from TAR to CPIO. I have a feeling that SuSE 8.0 is not picking up the proper settings, I get Found end of tape. To continue, type devices/file name to continue. Should I try another SCSI controller? Any suggestions are welcome. Donald Polak wrote:
These are internal, I do not have a separate terminator, but the drives have the ability to terminate themselves. I apologize for the green question, but what is Power Terminate?
Don
SRGlasoe wrote:
Make sure you do a complete power off of everything first before you do anything to your SCSI devices.
Terminate both ends of the SCSI bus. The controller card is one end and you have it auto-terminated. You must terminate the other end of your SCSI cable either on the last device or beyond the last device at the end of the SCSI cable opposite the SCSI controller. Put your power terminator back on the end of the SCSI cable, leave your devices unterminated.
Are these internal or external SCSI devices; controller, tape drives, etc? Are all devices on the same SCSI bus?
Stan
Donald Polak wrote:
I'm having nothing but troubles with my SCSI Tape drives. PLEASE HELP!!! I lost one server because a drive failed and I couldn't backup the drive.
This is the error I get when I try to tar to the drives.
gatekeeper:/ # tar -cvf /dev/st1 ./usr/local/httpd/htdocs/photo/ ./usr/local/httpd/htdocs/photo/ ./usr/local/httpd/htdocs/photo/lost+found/ ./usr/local/httpd/htdocs/photo/Birthdays/ ./usr/local/httpd/htdocs/photo/Birthdays/Dad/ ./usr/local/httpd/htdocs/photo/Birthdays/Dad/2001/ ./usr/local/httpd/htdocs/photo/Birthdays/Dad/2001/640/ ./usr/local/httpd/htdocs/photo/Birthdays/Dad/2001/640/P1090265.jpg ./usr/local/httpd/htdocs/photo/Birthdays/Dad/2001/640/P1090267.jpg ./usr/local/httpd/htdocs/photo/Birthdays/Dad/2001/640/P1090268.jpg ./usr/local/httpd/htdocs/photo/Birthdays/Dad/2001/descriptions/ ./usr/local/httpd/htdocs/photo/Birthdays/Dad/2001/comments/ ./usr/local/httpd/htdocs/photo/Birthdays/Dad/2001/P1090265.jpg tar: /dev/st1: Cannot write: Input/output error tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
Here is my configuration: SuSE Linux 8.0 Professional ASUS P5A Super Socket 7 Motherboard AMD K6-2 500MHz 256MB PC133 SDRAM WD 100GB EDIE Quantum 20GB EIDE ASUS 40X EIDE CDROM ASUS SC875 NCR 53c875 controllerd PCI SCSI Card Sony SDT-5200 DDS2 SCSI Tape Drive IBM Branded Seagate Python DDS3 SCSI Tape Drive 3Com 3C590 10BaseT NIC D-Link DE-220P PnP ISA NIC
Everything works great except for the SCSI tapes, everything is also seen too. Here is the details from proc.
gatekeeper:/ # cat /proc/scsi/scsi Attached devices: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 04 Lun: 00 Vendor: SONY Model: SDT-5200 Rev: 3.30 Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 05 Lun: 00 Vendor: ARCHIVE Model: Python 04106-XXX Rev: 743B Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
The SCSI card is auto terminating, so I have removed the Power Term and Termination off of both drives, since they are on the same cable.
Thank you in advance for any help that you can offer me!
Don
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