Seagate STT3401A on FC2

[Rick Stevens]

Bob McClure Jr wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 02:41:28PM -0600, Bob McClure Jr wrote:
> 
>>On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 09:53:59AM -0800, Rick Stevens wrote:
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>>>Bob McClure Jr wrote:
>>>
>>>><among other things>
>>>>
>>>>Here's an interesting thing about my tape.  After a reboot, an attempt
>>>>to back up to it results in a failure like "device busy" or some
>>>>such, but the next and all following work fine.  When I upgraded to
>>>>FC2, I think that problem went away.  I don't recall.  I don't reboot
>>>>that much. :-)
>>>
>>>Yes, IDE tapes are normally "/dev/htx" or "/dev/nhtx".  SCSI tapes are
>>>"/dev/stx" and "/dev/nstx".
>>>
>>>Bob, you might try "mt -i /dev/ht0 rewoffl" first (rewind and eject).
>>
>>Umm, perhaps you meant "mt -f /dev/ht0 rewoffl"?  The man page doesn't
>>document a "-i" option.
>>
>>
>>>Sometimes that initializes the drive adequately to prevent such
>>>issues.
>>
>>Cool.  I'll give it a try.
>>
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>>Cheers,
>>-- 
>>Bob McClure, Jr.
> 
> 
> FYI, it didn't work.  Had a power outage Thursday morning and shut
> everything down.  Then booted up when power came back.  Yesterday, I
> did the suggested "mt -f /dev/ht0 rewoffl", which ran without
> complaint.  This morning's backup report was:
> 
> backup started at Sun Nov 28 04:25:38 CST 2004
> afio: "/dev/nht0" [offset 5m+880k+0]: Fatal error:
> afio: "/dev/nht0": Input/output error
> backup finished at Sun Nov 28 04:26:47 CST 2004
> 
> I re-ran it in the background (with an "at" command) and it worked
> fine, as it will every subsequent time until it's rebooted again.
> It's not a problem anymore on my other machine that I've upgraded to
> FC2.  Gotta get that done on this one Real Soon Now.

Interesting.  Sounds like there's a glitch in the driver for the kernel
you're running.  Must leave a weird status flag set or something.

BTW, running FC3 on ye ol' laptop now as a guinea pig.  We'll see how
it goes.  Also running FC3 on a couple of servers with GFS.  Seems to
work pretty well so far.

> Hope you had a happy turkey (day).

Buuuuuurp!  ;-)
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