Tru64 5.1b

[Fibi Gerhard]

We have an issue with all SDLT Tapes V82 (110/220 and 160/320) and on different Alphas (ES45,ES47,ES40). Tru64 5.1b with latest patches!
When the Tape is write protected, the first command must be killed.
I´ve tried it with the following commands:
mt, file, vrestore.
After the first command is killed (strg C),
the next time when the command is issued it works fine.
When the tape is ejected and inserted again,
you have to kill the frist command again.
I´ve tried it with the dlt 35/70 - no problem.
The problem is only seen with write protected cartridges!
Have anyone out there seen this issue?
Can anyone help me with this issue?
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance
Gerhar

[Koehnen-Wiesemes]

This looks like an driver issue. Do you get any error messages (scsi sense information) after the first command without killing it - please keep in mind that scsi tape timeouts might be long.

Rene

[Fibi Gerhard]

Hi,
This is one output found in binary.errlog.
if you need the complete binary.errlog i can send it to you.
Thanks in the meantime.

COMMON EVENT HEADER (CEH) V2.0 Event_Leader xFFFF FFFE
Header_Length 264
Event_Length 944
Header_Rev_Major 2
Header_Rev_Minor 0
OS_Type 1 -- Tru64 UNIX
Hardware_Arch 4 -- Alpha
CEH_Vendor_ID 3,564 -- Hewlett-Packard Company
Hdwr_Sys_Type 38 -- Titan Corelogic
Logging_CPU 2 -- CPU Logging this Event
CPUs_In_Active_Set 4
Major_Class 199
Minor_Class 1
Entry_Type 199 -- Tru64 UNIX CAM Event
DSR_Msg_Num 2,020 -- AlphaServer ES45
.... Model 2/2B
.... CPU Slots: 4 (1250 Mhz)
.... PCI Slots: 10
.... MMB Slots: 8 (DIMMs)
Chip_Type 12 -- EV68CB - 21264C
CEH_Device 1
CEH_Device_ID_0 x0000 0006
CEH_Device_ID_1 x0000 0006
CEH_Device_ID_2 x0000 0000
Unique_ID_Count 370
Unique_ID_Prefix 11,925
Num_Strings 5





TLV Section of CEH TLV_DSR_String AlphaServer ES45 Model 2B
TLV_OS_Version Compaq Tru64 UNIX V5.1B (Rev. 2650)
TLV_Sys_Serial_Num AY24200646
TLV_Time_as_Local Thu 13 Jan 2005 11:08:27 GMT+01:00
TLV_Computer_Name abr





Entry_Type 199


UNIX CAM & I2O Event Header CAM_hdr_type 199
CAM_hdr_class x01 Tape
CAM_hdr_subsystem x0000 0001
CAM_hdr_entries 8



--- CAM Subpacket Support Start CAM SCSI Subpackets START OF SUBPACKETS IN THIS ENTRY



UNIX CAM, SWXCR & I2O Sub-Packet Header CAM_ent_type 258 Module Name String



Module Name String Sub-Packet Module_Name_Str ctape_move_tape



UNIX CAM, SWXCR & I2O Sub-Packet Header CAM_ent_type 256 Generic String



Generic String Sub-Packet Generic_String Unexpected CCB status



UNIX CAM, SWXCR & I2O Sub-Packet Header CAM_ent_type 260 Hardware Error String



Hardware Error String Sub-Packet Hardware_Error_Str Hard Error Detected



UNIX CAM, SWXCR & I2O Sub-Packet Header CAM_ent_type 256 Generic String



Generic String Sub-Packet Generic_String Hardware ID = 215



UNIX CAM, SWXCR & I2O Sub-Packet Header CAM_ent_type 257 Device Name String



Device Name String Sub-Packet Device_Name COMPAQ SDLT320 5252



UNIX CAM, SWXCR & I2O Sub-Packet Header CAM_ent_type 256 Generic String



Generic String Sub-Packet Generic_String Active CCB at time of error



UNIX CAM, SWXCR & I2O Sub-Packet Header CAM_ent_type 256 Generic String



Generic String Sub-Packet Generic_String Command timed out



UNIX CAM, SWXCR & I2O Sub-Packet Header CAM_ent_type 1



CAM SCSI I/O Request CCB Structure Sub-Packet cam_ccb_len 192
camfunc_code x01
cam_status x4B
cam_path x06 Logical SCSI Bus #
cam_target x06 Logical Host Target #
cam_lun x00 Logical Unit Number (LUN)
cam_flags x0000 00C0
cam_dxfer_len 0
cam_sense_len 64
cam_cdb_len 6
cam_sglist_cnt 0
cam_scsi_status x00 Good
cam_timeout 3,600
cam_msg_len 0
cam_vu_flags x0000
cam_tag_action x00
cam_sim_priv0 xFFFF FC00 F41C D6D0
cam_sim_priv1 x0000 0000 DEC0 0DEC
cam_sim_priv2 x0000 0000 0000 0000
cam_sim_priv3 x0000 0000 0000 0000
cam_sim_priv4 x0000 0000 0000 0000
cam_sim_priv5 x0000 0000 0000 0000
cam_sim_priv6 x0000 0000 0000 0000