On 21/07/17 18:36, John Andersen wrote:
On 07/21/2017 08:51 AM, Paul Groves wrote:
I have ordered a new SCSI cable and a 320Mbps PCI card. Well you've done everything else.
Are we sure that 320 Mbps cards are compatible with 160 Mbps drives? I've found one page (somewhat dated) that suggests there is quite a bit of difference between the two standards. https://kb.iu.edu/d/aiqw
Maybe you will have to keep both cards, and segregate devices accordingly.
I bet everyone if fed up with this by now. :) So, my Adaptec Ultra 320 card has arrived. I connected up the card to the server with only the HP 1760 LTO4 drive connected. No other SCSI devices. I turned on termination in the controllers bios screen and connected the terminator on the end of the cable after the drive. At boot it detects it as a Ultra 320 device and there are no errors on the controller side. lsscsi shows the drive fine. I ran mt -f /dev/st0 erase 0 the drive started to erase, at the point it started writing to the tape the same problem occurs. The problem: The drive goes 'donk' and stops dead. The tape spools for some time back and forth and repeats occasionally 'donk'ing. Eventually the drive gives up and ejects the tape then takes it back in. This repeats forever until I eject the cartridge. The server at this point is frozen on the command still. I cannot Ctrl + C, Ctrl + Z or Ctrl + \ I have no choice but to force reboot using sysrq keys. The same has happened with both of my LTO4 drives. Both HP Storageworks 1760 At this point I am stumped. I have changed the cable, the controller and the drive and it still is not working. :( -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org