Tape Library problems.

From: mg © (ihatespam_at_home.ok)
Date: 09/05/03 

Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 12:37:01 GMT

I have a NAS with a Promise SX6000 scsi-ata controller in it. It's 6x 300Gb ide
disks striped JBOD giving me 1.8TB of disk space. It's running Redhat 8.0 with
Rsync, Openssh and that's all.

I have a new Exabyte 430 Tape Library. I can't write to or even load the tapes.
I can see the drive in the Library, it's /dev/st0

Here is a little more info from the NAS (Redhat 8.0):

[root@nas root]# scsi_info /dev/st0
SCSI_ID="0,1,0"
MODEL="EXABYTE Mammoth2"
FW_REV="v03c"

[root@nas root]# mt -f /dev/st0 status
SCSI 2 tape drive:
File number=-1, block number=-1, partition=0.
Tape block size 0 bytes. Density code 0x0 (default).
Soft error count since last status=0
General status bits on (50000):
 DR_OPEN IM_REP_EN

[root@nas root]# find / | cpio -ov -H newc > /dev/st0
/
/lost+found
/boot
/boot/lost+found
cpio: write error: No medium found

The library is supposed to load a tape when it recieves a scsi command from the
OS. Exabyte seem to continually reference off the shelf backup solutions, which
is not what. I've had an Internal Exabyte M2 drive for years and it's never
faulted me like this. The Library has got me stumped and Google is not helping
me.

Anyone got experience with Tape Library's and Linux? Got any good URL's that
might assist me? Tia.

Relevant Pages

  • Mammoth 2 tape configuration
    ... I've been tasked with getting backups working with an older ExaByte ... EZ17 tape library with a single Mammoth 2 tape drive in it, ... shared memory info ...
    (comp.sys.sun.admin)
  • Re: 8MM Tapes
    ... >>I have a Prime 6650 using the 8mm Exabyte tape drives. ... >>of archived data sitting on tapes that we need to get onto the PC. ... >Should not be all that difficult to read the tape on a PC. ... I don't think the Prime/Exabyte SCSI command set was anything ...
    (comp.sys.prime)
  • Re: Mammoth 2 tape configuration
    ... EZ17 tape library with a single Mammoth 2 tape drive in it, ... Looking through the ExaByte documentation on the Mammoth 2 drive, ... Likewise a NetBackup news group. ...
    (comp.sys.sun.admin)
  • Re: Tape vs HDD vs NAS (speed considerations and size etc)..
    ... The OP was talking about as much as a $10K tape solutions, ... 2TB NAS with Gigabit Ethernet, RAID5, and Serial ATA Drives, Features ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs)
  • Tipp =?ISO-8859-15?Q?f=FCr_Festplattenkauf?=
    ... nachts Backups auf HDD, Tape, NAS ...
    (de.comp.hardware.laufwerke.festplatten)
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