Backup Fails

[Kranti Mahmud]

Hi Awis,

I do check the

mt -f /dev/st0 erase
mt -f /dev/st0 rewind

but the executin of these commands was unsucessful.

Hi Ahsan Bhai,

Have you tried using a cleaning tape?
->Yes
Changing scsi cables does it solved?
-> SCSI cable is not available at customer premisis.
Did you check the character device of tape drive's device permissions?-Yes

But, all these RND is fruitless.

Hi Rob,

Cleaning artridge was fresh, as I unpacked it by myself.

So, finally I can conclude that the Tape drive is faulty, ryt?

One more question, as per my observation, there is a juncton between two SCSI cable as the outgoing SCSI cable color (White) of the server and the incoming SCSI cable color (Black) of the Tape drive is different. Does it a issue?

Rgds-Kranti

[Rob Leadbeater]

Hi,

How exactly is the tape drive connected to the server ?

Internal or external ?

Cheers,

Rob

[Kranti Mahmud]

Hi Rob,

SmartArray controller has two tape drives, which is externally connected with two different servers. One is DL380 G4 in Linux (The suspected one), another is rp3440 in UNIX.

Rgds-Kranti