STK9840 fiber drive

Tyrone Kimp — Fri, 30 Jun 2000 05:26:16 GMT

when trying to access the drive I get a device busy. The tape2 driver is claimed
in ioscan.HPUX11.x is the OS, is there a new tape2 or stape driver needed.

Thank

-Tyrone

Re: STK9840 fiber drive

Patrick Wessel — Fri, 30 Jun 2000 09:25:21 GMT

Tyrone,

Can you provide us with some more information, please?
How did you try to access the tape drive? Omniback or a UNIX command like tar or pax?
Have you tried to find out if someone else uses the device by 'fuser ?

Re: STK9840 fiber drive

Joseph T. Wyckoff — Sun, 09 Jul 2000 05:33:01 GMT

Here are some wild guesses for you - we don't really have enough info...

Focus first on the FC - patching and firmware are a fairly common issue.

1. If you are using an FC MUX check firmware in the MUX/update if necessary
2. Consider OS patches for SCSI, TAPE, STAPE, FC...
3. Reset the FC MUX at some point...

Is this a SAN? Are the tape drives accessable from several servers?
If so the other server may be holding the lock...

Load a tape into the drive.

With a tape in the drive try this..

diskinfo -v /dev/0mbest
(of course use the correct /dev/.. path for YOUR tape drive...)

If you get some info about the tape drive then things are probably working at the OS level.

If you get device not available (or some such) then look to drivers and hardware issues - or the drive really is locked.

Are you using Omniback. Get recent Omniback patches.
http://ovweb.external.hp.com/cpe/patches/ob/ob.html

After you get OB patches in place, call for Omniback support - there may be an unreleased patch too.

In UX you usually have multiple special files for one drive (0m, 0mbest,c6t0d0...)
Might anything else be holding the drive locked (tar, fbackup...)

In Omniback you can have multiple drive names for a single physical drive also - if so be sure to use the ADVANCED option LOCK NAMES.

If it is a SAN - later versions of Omniback allow for some advanced locking.

Good Luck.

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