From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 20 16:36:17 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69D5416A404 for ; Thu, 20 Apr 2006 16:36:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stas@edpausa.com) Received: from skywalker.edpausa.com (mail.edpausa.com [67.88.41.162]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9BC543D46 for ; Thu, 20 Apr 2006 16:36:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from stas@edpausa.com) Received: from localhost (localhost.edpausa.com [127.0.0.1]) by skywalker.edpausa.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A1BBC94E1 for ; Thu, 20 Apr 2006 12:36:11 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at edpausa.com Received: from skywalker.edpausa.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (skywalker.edpausa.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id Sgj4Fd3oAypR for ; Thu, 20 Apr 2006 12:36:02 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.0.52] (stas.edpausa.com [192.168.0.52]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by skywalker.edpausa.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A01EFC9530 for ; Thu, 20 Apr 2006 12:36:02 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4447B86F.1000602@edpausa.com> Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 12:35:59 -0400 From: Stas Khromoy User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051201 Thunderbird/1.5 Mnenhy/0.7.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <4447AAAC.6020903@edpausa.com> <20060420161353.GC35511@malcolm.berkeley.edu> In-Reply-To: <20060420161353.GC35511@malcolm.berkeley.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: scsi troubles X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: stas@edpausa.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 16:36:17 -0000 i am pretty sure backups don't work when error comes up and the tape drive locks up at that time too, requiring a cold reset is any one else using this tape model (powervault 114t LTO2 tape drive)? ----- > > [snip] > > Do you know for sure if the backups are failing? It's possible the dump > card states are harmless. I have some systems that do a dump card state > on boot but that have never exhibited an actual problem. > > Another suggestion is to check if you have the latest firmware for both > the tape drive and the controller. > > Still more people will probably say that there is bad voodoo between > whoever your controller vendor is and whoever your drive vendor is. > > Mike >