On 1/11/06, Mariela Gon Klubek <mariela@invap.com.ar> wrote:
Hi people, Is anybody using DLT tapes with Suse 9.2? Are you having any problem? My kernel is 2.6.8-24.16, my DLT 7000, my scsi card qla1280 and aha1960 (with both scsi cards I got the same behavior).
The problem is:
I can do "tar -cvf /dev/nst0 ..." with small files (50Mb) without problems, for big files the "tar -c .." work fine only if I defined a bigger block.
Then the problem is after writing (for example a file of 700MB):
"mt -f /dev/nst0 eod" : results in /dev/nst0: input/output error "mt -f /dev/nst0 fsf 1": results in /dev/nst0: input/output error or if I'm at eod and I do a rewind I got the same result
The syslog tells: ".....resetting scsi bus .... st0: Error 40000 (sugg. bt 0x0, driver bt 0x0, host bt 0x4)"
Just to test, I installed mt-st.07-421, I define the /etc/stinit.def following Quantum Manual but I got the same errors.
Anybody has any idea?
Regards.
Mariela
I use a LTO-1 tape drive with the 29160 controller. I think I had it working with 9.2 and the stinit.def package, but I'm not positive. I'm now running 10.0 and my drive is NOT usable with the SUSE kernel. I have replaced the kernel with the vanilla 2.6.14 kernel from kernel.org. It is working fine. I believe that 2.6.14 contained some scsi/tape related fixes that are not yet in the SUSE kernels. With 10.0 SUSE kernel I was getting errors like "Failure writing End of Media". HTH Greg -- Greg Freemyer The Norcross Group Forensics for the 21st Century