We have a problem trying to write files to tape on our Linux server. We keep getting data sense errors when after it has listed about seven files. This is the first time we are trying to do backups and the problem is occuring on two identical machines, which makes me think it is set up wrong. Config of server : Intel white box server SC5000 L440GX+ Motherboard with 2 channel on-board AIC-7896 controllers dpt_i2o Dual Channel Raid controller ASR3200S Seagate DDS-4 Dat Tape STD2401LW-S RH 6.2 Kernal 2.2.14-5.0smp Linux boots fine and everything runs fine, the problem arises when we try to write to the Dat tape. Using the commands like #mt -f /dev/st0 status SCSI 2 tape drive: File number=0, block number=0, partition=0 Tape block size 512 bytes. Density code 0x25 (DDS-3) Soft error count since last status=0 General status bits on (41010000): BOT ONLINE IM_REP_EN everything looks ok. We have looked in /proc/scsi/aic7xxx and everything looks fine. Yet you enter the command "tar cvf /dev/st0 /boot/*" it list seven file names then gives the error: st0: Error with sense data: [valid=0] Info fld=0x0, Current st09:00: sense key Aborted Command Additional sense indicates Scsi parity error tar: /dev/st0: Cannot write: Input/ouput error tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now The session now justs hangs. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks Andy -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
