Hi,
please send replies to the list, so others can follow this discussion,
too.
20.07.2007 08:18,, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote::
> Hi,
>
> Dnia 18-07-2007 o godz. 10:39 Arno Lehmann napisa³(a):
>> Hi,
>>
>> 18.07.2007 10:10,, Mariusz Czulada wrote::
>>> Hi again,
>>>
>>> I still have problems with my IBM TS3310 library, so again ask for your
>>> help with this.
>>>
>>> I use an IBM xSeries host with CentOS 4.3. DDS-5 internal drive (working
>>> perfectly), and IBM TS3310 tape library, with two LTO-3 drives connected
>>> directly (i mean without FC switch) to two QLogic QLA2460 HBA. IBM tape
>>> drivers taken from IBM site. Catalog is created in PostgreSQL 8.1.5.
>>> Bacula 2.0.2. Both pg and bacula compiled from sources.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> After btape tests (went 100% OK) I added some suggested options to
>>> device definition, so now it looks like this:
>>>
>>> ...
>>> Device {
>>> Name = "Dev:TS3310-drv0"
>>> Device Type = tape
>>> Media Type = LTO-3
>>> Archive Device = /dev/IBMtape0n
>>> AutomaticMount = yes; # when device opened, read it
>>> AlwaysOpen = yes;
>>> RemovableMedia = yes;
>>> RandomAccess = no;
>>> Block positioning = no; # hint from btape
>>> Hardware End of Medium = No # hint from btape
>>> Fast Forward Space File = No # hint from btape
>>> BSF at EOM = yes # hint from btape
>> This will only work when you also set Two EOFs at tape end, I think.
>>
>
> I added "TWO EOF=yes", but unfortunately, it didn't help. I got:
>
> 18-Jul 13:58 Sd:pl-admbackup01: J:RepositoryFull-ncx.2007-07-18_13.53.20
> Error: Unable to position to end of data on device "Dev:TS3310-drv0"
> (/dev/IBMtape0n): ERR=dev.c:1359 read error on "Dev:TS3310-drv0"
> (/dev/IBMtape0n). ERR=Input/output error.
Was this with a tape that has been used already? In that case, the
problem is to be expected.
If you wrote to that tape only after the "Two EOF" were set and the SD
restarted, and then got that problem, I'm running out of ideas...
probably the best thing you can do now is investigating the caching
problem Kern mentioned...
Arno
>> Arno
>>
>>> Autochanger = yes;
>>> Drive Index = 0;
>>> }
>>>
>>> Device {
>>> Name = "Dev:TS3310-drv1"
>>> Device Type = tape
>>> Media Type = LTO-3
>>> Archive Device = /dev/IBMtape1n
>>> AutomaticMount = yes; # when device opened, read it
>>> AlwaysOpen = yes;
>>> RemovableMedia = yes;
>>> RandomAccess = no;
>>> Block positioning = no; # hint from btape
>>> Hardware End of Medium = No # hint from btape
>>> Fast Forward Space File = No # hint from btape
>>> BSF at EOM = yes # hint from btape
>>> Autochanger = yes;
>>> Drive Index = 1;
>>> }
>>>
>>> Autochanger {
>>> Name = "Achg:TS3310"
>>> Device = "Dev:TS3310-drv0"
>>> Device = "Dev:TS3310-drv1"
>>> Changer Device = /dev/sg6
>>> Changer Command = "/opt/bacula/etc/mtx-changer %c %o %S %a %d"
>>> }
>>> ...
>>>
>>>
>>> The problem appears when tape is reloaded - SD cannot correctly find end
>>> of tape and it marks volue as "Error". In attached file there is a part
>>> of debugged SD log with related elements. The curious case is that it
>>> not always fails! Sometimes one or two reloads works fine, job is
>>> appended to the volume, but after first error all further jobs fail to
>>> append.
>>>
>>> Lately, I tested 2.1.22, hoping for some fixes here, but still have same
>>> problems. I wonder if there is at least a workaround for this, i.e. with
>>> some additional device options.
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance for any help,
>>>
>>> Mariusz Czu³ada
>>>
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