Jeff, You didn't include the results of `mt -f /dev/nst0 status`, which might give some information about the state of the drive. Also, I hope you're using /dev/nst0 instead of /dev/st0 in your amanda configuration, or your backups may be no good.
You can continue to do backups to your holding disk, which you can then flush to tape later. > -----Original Message----- > From: Jeff Q Silverman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, July 15, 2002 12:06 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: My tape drive dissappeared after updating the > operating system > - now what? > > > I have been using amanda without a problem for over two years. This > weekend, I updated the operating system on my amandaa server > and the tape > drive broke. I assume that the problem is a software problem with the > operating system. > > With a tape in the drive, the command > > cat /dev/st0 > > causes the process to hang in a sleep (wait for I/O) state. > I assume that > the cat command ought to output the contents of the tape to > the next file > mark, right? > > dmesg has the following information (edited for relevence, I hope) > > Linux version 2.4.9-12smp ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc > version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.1 2.96-85)) #1 SMP Tue Oct 30 > 18:16:48 EST 2001 > > > (scsi0) <Adaptec AIC-7892 Ultra 160/m SCSI host adapter> found at PCI > 0/9/0 > (scsi0) Wide Channel, SCSI ID=7, 32/255 SCBs > (scsi0) Downloading sequencer code... 396 instructions downloaded > scsi0 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x (EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI) 5.2.4/5.2.0 > <Adaptec AIC-7892 Ultra 160/m SCSI host adapter> > blk: queue c17fc418, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) > Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST318416N Rev: 0004 > Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 > blk: queue c17fc218, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) > Vendor: ADIC Model: FastStor DLT Rev: 0133 > Type: Medium Changer ANSI SCSI revision: 02 > blk: queue c17fc018, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) > Vendor: QUANTUM Model: DLT8000 Rev: 0232 > Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 > blk: queue c15c9a18, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) > Vendor: IBM Model: DDYS-T36950N Rev: S80D > Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 > blk: queue c15c9818, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) > Vendor: QUANTUM Model: ATLAS10K2-TY734L Rev: DDD6 > Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 > blk: queue c15c9418, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) > Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST173404LW Rev: 0002 > Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 > blk: queue c15c9218, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) > Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 > Attached scsi disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id 5, lun 0 > Attached scsi disk sdc at scsi0, channel 0, id 8, lun 0 > Attached scsi disk sdd at scsi0, channel 0, id 9, lun 0 > (scsi0:0:0:0) Synchronous at 20.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 31. > SCSI device sda: 35885168 512-byte hdwr sectors (18373 MB) > Partition check: > sda: sda1 sda2 < sda5 sda6 sda7 sda8 sda9 > > (scsi0:0:5:0) Synchronous at 160.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 63. > SCSI device sdb: 71687340 512-byte hdwr sectors (36704 MB) > sdb: sdb1 > (scsi0:0:8:0) Synchronous at 160.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 127. > SCSI device sdc: 143443640 512-byte hdwr sectors (73443 MB) > sdc: sdc1 > (scsi0:0:9:0) Synchronous at 160.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 63. > SCSI device sdd: 143374738 512-byte hdwr sectors (73408 MB) > sdd: sdd1 > ... > st: Version 20010812, bufsize 32768, wrt 30720, max init. > bufs 4, s/g segs > 16 > Attached scsi tape st0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 4, lun 0 > > > > Eventually, the system crashes. The SCSI controller is an AIC7800. > > Questions: > > 1) Anybody have any good ideas about what is going wrong and > how to fix > it? > 2) Am I testing the tape subsystem properly? > 3) Am I correct in assuming that I cannot do anything else with Amanda > until this problem is resolved? > > The tape drive is an ADIC FastStore 22, which is a DLT tape > drive and a > changer. > > > > Jeff Silverman, sysadmin for the Research Computing Systems (RCS) > University of Washington, School of Engineering, Electrical > Engineering Dept. > Box 352500, Seattle, WA, 98125-2500 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://rcs.ee.washington.edu/BRL/people/jeffs/ > > >
