I'm having fairly regular problems with bacula-sd not mounting tapes
either automagically per the Bacula config or via the "mount" command in
bacula-console. When the problem occurs, bacula-sd always reports
something like the following:


*mount
Automatically selected Storage: HP-Ultrium
3001 OK mount. Device=/dev/st0


as opposed to this when it is healthy:


*mount
Automatically selected Storage: HP-Ultrium
3001 Mounted Volume: IJ-FridayB
3001 Device /dev/st0 is mounted with Volume "IJ-FridayB"


In this instance, the IJ-FridayB tape was in the drive the entire time.
The only thing that changed was that I stopped and restarted bacula-sd
several times via the init scripts. "mt status" looked fine the entire
time.

I'm also seeing these messages in the logs occassionally:


st0: Error with sense data: Current st09:00: sense key Not Ready
Additional sense indicates Medium not present
st0: MTSETDRVBUFFER only allowed for root.


although I cannot correlate their presence with the bacula-sd symptoms
via the timestamps. They may be a red herring. 

It looks to me like the tape labels and the bacula configuration are
okay. bacula-sd just doesn't like the tape drive occassionally. Any
advice? Are there known problems with  HP Ultrium drives and bacula-sd? 

# cat /proc/scsi/scsi
Attached devices:
Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 03 Lun: 00
  Vendor: HP       Model: Ultrium 1-SCSI   Rev: N26D
  Type:   Sequential-Access                ANSI SCSI revision: 03


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Nathan Valentine, CISSP - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Open Source Technician/Computer Forensics Analyst
Venn Technologies, Inc. : http://www.venntech.net

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