Redhat ES4 and DLT tape drive

[Greg Wiggill]

Hi All,
        I have an xSeries ES4 machine 2.6.9-5.ELsmp which takes my tape
drive offline after a cpio backup. Reboot brings it back online.
 
                find pro data home etc -print | cpio -ocB | dd ibs=1k
obs=64k of=/dev/st0
 
        anyone experiencing anything similar? Im thinking that a driver
is having a problem with the 2.6 kernel? Any ideas?
 
 
Now doing backups
Backing up /
155170 blocks
775850+0 records in
12122+1 records out
dd: closing output file `/dev/st0': Input/output error
Errors were encountered during backup - ABORTING

dmesg | grep scsi
 
scsi0 : IBM PCI ServeRAID 7.10.18  Build 731
Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Attached scsi generic sg0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0,  type 0
Attached scsi generic sg1 at scsi0, channel 0, id 15, lun 0,  type 3
Attached scsi generic sg2 at scsi0, channel 1, id 13, lun 0,  type 1
Attached scsi generic sg3 at scsi0, channel 2, id 8, lun 0,  type 3
Attached scsi tape st0 at scsi0, channel 1, id 13, lun 0
scsi: Device offlined - not ready after error recovery: host 0 channel 1
id 13 lun 0

cat /proc/scsi/scsi

Attached devices:
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
  Vendor: IBM      Model: SERVERAID        Rev: 1.00
  Type:   Direct-Access                    ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 15 Lun: 00
  Vendor: IBM      Model: SERVERAID        Rev: 1.00
  Type:   Processor                        ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Host: scsi0 Channel: 01 Id: 13 Lun: 00
  Vendor: IBM      Model: VS160            Rev: 2200
  Type:   Sequential-Access                ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Host: scsi0 Channel: 02 Id: 08 Lun: 00
  Vendor: IBM      Model: 02R0962a S320  1 Rev: 1
  Type:   Processor                        ANSI SCSI revision: 02

 
thanks
Greg

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