Re: Cannot make a HP Surestore40 to work on RH 7.2

[Jeff Bearer <jbearer pittsburghlive com>]

I can't answer your problem, just that I've used that drive with Amanda
with no problems.  http://www.amanda.org/

Amanda has settings for the drive/media, you will find yours listed in
their FAQ-O-matic.

Hope that helps.




On Mon, 2002-09-30 at 06:37, Sorin-Razvan Popa wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> 
> We have some problems with a new internal HP Surestore DAT 40 SCSI drive, installed onto a new HP Netserver tc4000 (they've come together, a couple of months ago). 
> 
> We want to make some One-Button Disaster Recovery Tapes - or, at least some reliable backup tapes (i.e. we want to write something to the tapes and be able to safely read that data back).
> 
> The DDS4 (40 Gb) tape reaches too quick the end of tape (or, at least so it says). We have tried also with a DDS 3 tape, with same results.
> 
> We have tried cpio, tar,dump, TapeWare 6.3 with SP3A, taper, hostdump.sh, etc., with 0, 512, 2048, 5120 bytes/ 28kb block sizes.; all we get is either a premature: "end of tape reached. Insert new tape to continue ..." or "error. aborting, exiting, etc." Tapeware says "Error xxx. Illegal request." when trying to make a Backup Tape.
> 
> It seems we are unable to set the correct density and length of the tape (?!!)
> 
> Inserting the 40Gb tape, the "mt [-f /dev/st0] status" command gives:
> 
> SCSI 2 tape drive:
> File number=0, block number=0, partition=0.
> Tape block size 0 bytes. Density code 0x26 (DDS-4 or QIC-4GB).
> Soft error count since last status=0
> General status bits on (41010000):
> BOT ONLINE IM_REP_EN
> 
> Following, the output of four commands:
> 
> dmesg | grep st0
> cat /etc/modules.conf
> cat /proc/scsi/scsi
> lsmod
> 
> ***** dmesg |grep st0 *******
> 
> Attached scsi tape st0 at scsi1, channel 0, id 3, lun 0
> st0: Block limits 1 - 16777215 bytes.
> st0: Error with sense data: Current st09:00: sense key Not Ready
> st0: Write not multiple of tape block size.
> st0: Write not multiple of tape block size.
> st0: Error 27070000 (sugg. bt 0x20, driver bt 0x7, host bt 0x7).
> st0: Error 27070000 (sugg. bt 0x20, driver bt 0x7, host bt 0x7).
> st0: Error 27070000 (sugg. bt 0x20, driver bt 0x7, host bt 0x7).
> st0: Error 27070000 (sugg. bt 0x20, driver bt 0x7, host bt 0x7).
> st0: Error 27070000 (sugg. bt 0x20, driver bt 0x7, host bt 0x7).
> st0: Error 27070000 (sugg. bt 0x20, driver bt 0x7, host bt 0x7).
> st0: Error 27070000 (sugg. bt 0x20, driver bt 0x7, host bt 0x7).
> st0: Error 27070000 (sugg. bt 0x20, driver bt 0x7, host bt 0x7).
> st0: Error 27070000 (sugg. bt 0x20, driver bt 0x7, host bt 0x7).
> st0: Error 27070000 (sugg. bt 0x20, driver bt 0x7, host bt 0x7).
> st0: Error 27070000 (sugg. bt 0x20, driver bt 0x7, host bt 0x7).
> 
> 
> ***** cat /etc/modules.conf *******
> 
> alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
> alias scsi_hostadapter megaraid
> alias eth0 eepro100
> alias scsi_hostadapter1 sym53c8xx
> alias scsi_hostadapter2 sym53c8xx
> alias usb-controller usb-ohci
> alias sound-slot-0 cmpci
> post-install sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -L >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
> pre-remove sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -S >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
> 
> 
> ***** cat /proc/scsi/scsi *******
> 
> Attached devices: 
> Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 04 Lun: 00
>   Vendor: HP       Model: SAF-TE           Rev: 1124
>   Type:   Processor                        ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> Host: scsi0 Channel: 01 Id: 00 Lun: 00
>   Vendor: MegaRAID Model: LD0 RAID5 04193R Rev:   H 
>   Type:   Direct-Access                    ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 03 Lun: 00
>   Vendor: HP       Model: C5683A           Rev: C111
>   Type:   Sequential-Access                ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> Host: scsi3 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
>   Vendor: LITEON   Model: CD-ROM LTN486S   Rev: YKS4
>   Type:   CD-ROM                           ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> 
> 
> ***** lsmod *******
> 
> Module                  Size  Used by
> st                     26976   0  (autoclean)
> sg                     29536   1  (autoclean)
> cmpci                  30896   1  (autoclean)
> soundcore               4848   4  (autoclean) [cmpci]
> ide-scsi                8352   0 
> autofs                 12096   0  (autoclean) (unused)
> eepro100               18144   1 
> appletalk              24944   0  (autoclean)
> ipx                    20128   0  (autoclean)
> ext3                   67760   7  (autoclean)
> jbd                    44512   7  (autoclean) [ext3]
> usb-ohci               19344   0  (unused)
> usbcore                54528   1  [usb-ohci]
> sym53c8xx              57920   1 
> megaraid               24080  11 
> sd_mod                 11584  11 
> scsi_mod               98512   6  [st sg ide-scsi sym53c8xx megaraid sd_mod]
> 
> Any advice/suggestion/comment will be most benefficial.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Sorin-Razvan Popa (Sammy)
> 
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