Hey guys,
I'm hoping someone can shed a bit of light on this problem for me. A few
weeks ago our finely tuned and long-running amanda system ran into a
hiccup, it stopped dumping to tape. All other aspects of amanda work
fine, it's spooling to disk.
Environment:
Hardware:
Sun Ultra 5
Sony SDX-300C AIT2 tape drive
Software:
Solaris 7
amanda-2.4.2
chg-scsi -status robot shows this:
$ chg-scsi -status robot
Address Type Status From Barcode Label
-------------------------------------------
0000086 MTE Empty -001 WAN00009300009000092
0000000 STE Full -001 000030 SWAN000030
0000001 STE Full -001 000031 SWAN000031
0000002 STE Full -001 000032 SWAN000032
0000003 STE Full -001 000033 SWAN000033
0000004 STE Full -001 000034 SWAN000034
0000005 STE Full -001 000035 SWAN000035
0000006 STE Full -001 000036 SWAN000036
0000007 STE Full -001 000037 SWAN000037
0000008 STE Full -001 000038 SWAN000038
0000009 STE Full -001 000039 SWAN000039
0000010 STE Full -001 000040 SWAN000040
0000011 STE Full -001 000041 SWAN000041
0000012 STE Full -001 000042 SWAN000042
0000013 STE Full -001 000043 SWAN000043
0000014 STE Full -001 000044 SWAN000044
0000082 DTE Empty -001 WAN00009300009000092
0000083 DTE Full -001 WAN00009300009000092
When I try to amflush (or do regular backups) I get this error from
amanda:
ERROR taper no-tape [label SWAN000030 or new tape not found in rack]
ERROR amflush Cannot flush without tape. Try again.
I don't have a copy of the output of chg-scsi before this started but
the "From" field looks a bit suspect.
Also, chg-scsi -reset gives strange output:
$ chg-scsi -reset
chg-scsi: strange amanda header: ""
Segmentation Fault
Anytime amanda trys to access the changer/drive I get this in my system
logs:
Jan 8 14:14:41 host unix: Sense Key: Illegal Request
Jan 8 14:14:41 host unix: ASC: 0x26 (<vendor unique code 0x26>), ASCQ: 0x1, FRU: 0x0
Jan 8 14:14:44 host unix: WARNING: /pci@1f,0/pci@1/scsi@3/st@2,0 (st2):
Jan 8 14:14:44 host Error for Command: <undecoded cmd 0x4d> Error Level: Fatal
Jan 8 14:14:44 host unix: Requested Block: 0 Error Block: 0
Jan 8 14:14:44 host unix: Vendor: SONY Serial Number:
Jan 8 14:14:44 host unix: Sense Key: Illegal Request
Jan 8 14:14:44 host unix: ASC: 0x26 (<vendor unique code 0x26>), ASCQ: 0x1, FRU: 0x0
Can anyone suggest something else I can look into? I've power cycled
both the tape changer and the machine it's attached to several times
with no change.
-Bill
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-=| Bill Swingle
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