We're a generally happy Networker and Cambridge Computer customer with a Qualstar AIT-2 library plugged into Solaris 8 box via a mini backup SAN.
A few days ago, a sysadmin here applied a large patch cluster including 108725 which overwrites st.conf without saving a copy. It was intended that the mirrored drives would be split before applying such a large set of patches but this was not done. So we have a big problem. (I can justify this spam by calling it a WARNING: PATCH 108725 OVERWRITES ST.CONF.) To simplify things our intention is to use a loaner AIT-2 drive to restore the entire system to half the disk mirror. We have successfully written/read a fresh tape using tar (verified good data with sum), but Networker fails to read any of our existing tapes. Best guess here is st.conf. We and CamCom went through 4 different iterations thereof during the installation of the library. Google returns over a dozen different st.conf entries purporting to be correct for AIT-2 drives. We've tried the one in the AIT manual (which appears to assume AIT-1) and "1,0x34,0,0x1639,4,0x0,0x0,0x0,0x0,3;" but neither work. Does there happen to be a CamCom customer here who can tell us which of the many possible entries they "usually" use? (Of course we've asked them, but we're desperate/hurried enough to spam.) Legato support has not pointed fingers back at Sun and our sysadmin (probably correctly). We don't have a live Sun support contract (penny wise, pound foolish). The underlying problem we are trying to solve by rolling the entire system back to pre-patch state is that boot -r refuses to build *anything* in /dev/rmt. Legato's inquire utility finds the drives but no devices for them. We attempted to make manual symlinks to the appropriate SCSI ids but it hasn't worked. If anyone has tips for that, we'd accept that as an answer too. # ./inquire [EMAIL PROTECTED]:SEAGATE ST336704LSUN36G 0326|Disk, /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s2 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:SEAGATE ST336704LSUN36G 0326|Disk, /dev/rdsk/c0t1d0s2 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-M14011007|CD-ROM, /dev/rdsk/c0t6d0s2 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:QUALSTARTLS-412360 2.10|Autochanger (Jukebox) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:SONY SDX-500C 01 |Tape [EMAIL PROTECTED]:SONY SDX-500C 01 |Tape [EMAIL PROTECTED]:SONY SDX-500C 01 |Tape [EMAIL PROTECTED]:SONY SDX-500C 01 |Tape [EMAIL PROTECTED]:SONY SDX-500C 01 |Tape [EMAIL PROTECTED]:SONY SDX-500C 01 |Tape [EMAIL PROTECTED]:CNSi FS1310 R412|Processor Networker's complaints are: Apr 6 11:03:43 lazarus4.unet.brandeis.edu root: NetWorker Server: (notice) started Apr 6 11:07:03 lazarus4.unet.brandeis.edu scsi: /pci@1f,4000/scsi@3,1/st@0,0 (st7): Apr 6 11:07:03 lazarus4.unet.brandeis.edu Variable record length I/O Apr 6 11:08:08 lazarus4.unet.brandeis.edu root: NetWorker media: (warning) /dev/rmt/0cbn reading: Not enough space Apr 6 11:08:08 lazarus4.unet.brandeis.edu last message repeated 4 times Apr 6 11:08:08 lazarus4.unet.brandeis.edu root: NetWorker media: (notice) Volume "A00128" on device "/dev/rmt/0cbn": Cannot decode block. Verify the device configuration. Tape positioning by record is disabled. Apr 6 11:08:08 lazarus4.unet.brandeis.edu root: NetWorker media: (warning) /dev/rmt/0cbn reading: Not enough space Apr 6 11:08:09 lazarus4.unet.brandeis.edu root: NetWorker media: (info) can not read record 244 of file 32 on 8mm AIT-2 tape A00128 Apr 6 11:08:09 lazarus4.unet.brandeis.edu root: NetWorker media: (warning) /dev/rmt/0cbn reading: Not enough space Apr 6 11:08:13 lazarus4.unet.brandeis.edu last message repeated 24 times Apr 6 11:08:13 lazarus4.unet.brandeis.edu root: NetWorker Device Disabled: -- Rich Graves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> UNet Systems Administrator --- Send mail for the `bblisa' mailing list to `[EMAIL PROTECTED]'. Mail administrative requests to `[EMAIL PROTECTED]'.
