AlphaServer 1000A with TLZ09 DAT

[George France]

Hi,

If you are looking for something easy to install that is very stable then try 
RH-7.2 for alpha on  ftp2.compaq.com.  It is not the latest and greatest 
bits, but it works well for my purpose behind a firewall.

Best Regards,

--George

On Sunday 26 June 2005 07:36 pm, Rui Barreiros wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I recently acquired an alphaserver 1000A 5/400 with a TLZ09 DAT tape,
> been having alot of trouble to have a decent linux distro working on it
> due to the scsi driver, and also tried some bsd distros but with
> problems too regarding to the eisa bus...
>
> Well, finally, AlphaCore works very well, (as always, redhat/fedora
> never let me down) but i have some strange quirks working with the tape,
> whatever command i issue (except an mt status) it get's offlined, here
> is the relevant part of messages log:
>
> Jun 26 23:32:52 gimli kernel: scsi(0): Resetting
> Cmnd=0xfffffc0000633940, Handle=0x0000000000000202, action=0x2
> Jun 26 23:32:52 gimli kernel: scsi(0:0:4:0): Queueing device reset
> command.
> Jun 26 23:32:52 gimli kernel: scsi(0): Resetting
> Cmnd=0xfffffc0000633940, Handle=0x0000000000000202, action=0x3
> Jun 26 23:32:52 gimli kernel: qla1280(0:0): Issuing BUS DEVICE RESET
> Jun 26 23:32:52 gimli kernel: scsi(0:1): Resetting SCSI BUS
> Jun 26 23:32:52 gimli kernel: scsi(0): Resetting
> Cmnd=0xfffffc0000633940, Handle=0x0000000000000202, action=0x4
> Jun 26 23:32:52 gimli kernel: scsi(0): Issued ADAPTER RESET
> Jun 26 23:32:52 gimli kernel: scsi(0): I/O processing will continue
> automatically
> Jun 26 23:32:52 gimli kernel: scsi(0): dequeuing outstanding commands
> Jun 26 23:32:53 gimli kernel: scsi(0:0): Resetting SCSI BUS
> Jun 26 23:33:03 gimli kernel: scsi: Device offlined - not ready after
> error recovery: host 0 channel 0 id 4 lun 0
> Jun 26 23:33:03 gimli kernel: st0: Error 2 (sugg. bt 0x0, driver bt 0x0,
> host bt 0x0).
> Jun 26 23:33:03 gimli kernel: scsi0 (4:0): rejecting I/O to offline
> device
>
> this happened when i was doing a mt erase on the tape, but whatever i do
> (erase, rewind, forward, a simple tar) i get the same errors above, and
> the tape get's offline, since i don't know how to get here back online,
> i have to reboot the machine.
>
> Currently using stock alphacore 1.0 with kernel 2.6.11-1-1180
>
> Tape is a TLZ09 and SCSI is a Qlogic 1040
>
> Jun 25 18:07:31 localhost kernel: SCSI subsystem initialized
> Jun 25 18:07:31 localhost kernel: qla1280: QLA1040 found on PCI bus 1,
> dev 0
> Jun 25 18:07:31 localhost kernel: scsi(0:0): Resetting SCSI BUS
> Jun 25 18:07:31 localhost kernel: scsi0 : QLogic QLA1040 PCI to SCSI
> Host Adapter
> Jun 25 18:07:31 localhost kernel:        Firmware version:  7.65.00,
> Driver version 3.25
> Jun 25 18:07:31 localhost kernel:   Vendor: DEC       Model: RZ1BB-BS
> (C) DEC  Rev: 0818
> Jun 25 18:07:31 localhost kernel:   Type:   Direct-Access
> ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> Jun 25 18:07:31 localhost kernel: scsi(0:0:0:0): Sync: period 10, offset
> 12, Wide, Tagged queuing: depth 255
>
> Does anyone know how can i solve this ? or do i have to sit tight and
> wait for a kernel patch that solves this ??
>
> i don't mind to be the testbed for any issue as along as this can be
> solved :)
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
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