On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 01:31:59PM +0700, Olivier Nicole wrote: > > Whenever i run an amanda backup around 30mins into the run I get the > > following errors in the logs. I've included a few extra unrelated > > lines at the beginning to give some context. > > > > From what i can see something bad happened, an attempt was made to > > reset and the SCSI card went offline. > > > > So i'm finally left with the proverbial question: is it hardware or > > software? > > Hi, > > Are the tape new? > > Did you try different tape? > > Did you try to write to the tape "by hand": tar cf /dev/st0 ... > > I see that your SCSI card is Ultra 160 but your tape drive is only > fast wide, do you have any disk pluged in that SCSI interface? It > should work, but who knows, if you can (have 2 SCSI interface) > separate fast disks, from slow tape. >
> > So i'm finally left with the proverbial question: is it hardware or > > software? The log messages don't sound like software to me, except maybe the scsi driver. Continuing Oliver's train > > The tape drive is a few years old the rest of the hardware is brand new. I'd guess the SCSI terminator was left on the tape drive from the old configuration. Is a fast/wide terminator appropriate for the current Ultra 160 configuration? Time to sacrifice a goat to the scsi gods and check all the cables, terminators, board seatings & settings, and driver & firmware updates. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
