Hello,
I have a SONY-SDX500C drive in an external chasis, that was working just
fine yesterday. I was able to tar to the device, label the tape using
amlabel (using the default amanda.conf and tape label "HISS1"), as well as
use mt commands to rewind my tape. Last evening before I left I started a
tapetype to see what would be produced with my current hardware setup.
When I returned this morning I was receiving a hardware sense error.
Please let me explain in more detail below:
My tapetype run:
hostname:~# tapetype SONY-SDX500C /dev/nst1
st1: Block limits 2 - 16777215 bytes.
wrote 693509 32Kb blocks in 6289 seconds
wrote 4829 32Kb sections
define tapetype SONY-SDX500C {
comment "just produced by tapetype program
length 21671 mbytes
filemark 4554 kbytes
speed 3528 kbytes
}
could not rewind /dev/nst1: Input/output error
hostname:~#
Why is tapetype attempting to rewind a non-rewinding device (/dev/nst1)?
I am receiving the following in syslog:
Oct 8 19:55:29 hostname kernel: st1: Error with sense data: Current
st09:01: sense key Hardware Error
I tried to run a mt rewind as well (I know I am using the non rewinding
device, yet this was working yesterday.):
hostname:~# mt -f /dev/nst1 rewind
mt: /dev/nst1: Input/output error
hostname:~#
The tape will not eject using the eject button. I rebooted the server and
cycled the power on the tape device and *poof* everything is working
again. I can tar to the device, rewind and erase the tape with mt, and
label the tape again. Can anyone shed any light on exactly what happened
here? Is this indicitive of problems I will have with amanda running with
this drive?
Thank you in advance!
Andrew
