On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 01:51:08PM -0700, Dege, Robert C. wrote:
> > what platform/OS is your tapehost?
> AMD System, running RedHat 9.0. I'm using a stock 2.4.22 kernel.
OK. i've never run a linux amanda server/tapehost.
> > did you also modify your SCSI tape driver config file
> > (/kernel/drv/st.conf
> > on Solaris) so the driver can know about particular capabilities of
> > the tapedrive?
>
> I didn't modify any kernel source files. I'm using 2 modules, st.o for the tape
> drive, and sg.o for the tape changer.
i don't know how the linux kernel does this. i hear tell of a "SCSI
HowTo" out there, maybe even a "SCSI Tape HowTo"..
> > only with larger tape files, e.g. over ~16Gb in size. symptom was
> > device timeouts on the tape device, and amanda "thought" these dumps
> > were successful!
>
> Really? How were you able to resolve this problem? Did you lower chunksize or
> something similar in the amanda.conf file?
i put the DIP switches the way they were supposed to be, and added the
relevant lines to the (solaris) st.conf file.. ;*) i am suspicious
that the st.conf definitions were key. kernel debug logging stopped
showing the device timeouts.
> -Rob
chris
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