Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 20:03:33 +0100 From: Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de> To: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org> Cc: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: running a cleaning tape with chio (not!) Message-ID: <20000303200333.B1434@saturn.kn-bremen.de> In-Reply-To: <20000302000359.A36748@panzer.kdm.org> References: <20000301020107.A1387@saturn.kn-bremen.de> <20000229213126.A27011@panzer.kdm.org> <20000301212812.A30440@saturn.kn-bremen.de> <20000302000359.A36748@panzer.kdm.org>
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On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 12:04:00AM -0700, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 21:28:12 +0100, Juergen Lock wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 09:31:26PM -0700, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > > > On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 02:01:08 +0100, Juergen Lock wrote: > > > > Hi! > > > > > > > > Is this supposed to work? it didn't for me today, it did load it > > > > and also print on the console its a cleaning tape, but when the > > > > drive ejected it after doing its thing (normal behaviour with > > > > cleaning tapes at least on dds drives), it tried to load it again. :( > > > > > > > > This is a 6-slot hp dds2 autoloader, and 3.4-stable... > > > > > > Did you try to do I/O to the drive while the cleaning tape was in? The > > > > No, no process did anything on /dev/(n)rsa0, the only one that was > > talking to it was the chio. > > Hmm, I guess I'm used to changers where the tape mechanism and the changer > mechanism are relatively separate. In most cases the changer has little > idea about what type of tape it put in the drive. The only thing it might > know is an id from a barcode label. > > Your changer is evidently different, as the error below suggests -- it > indeed came from the changer LUN on the device. > Yep, and this is probably also whats causing the problem... > >[syslog snipped] > >From the logs above, it looks like you tried to move the tape into the > drive twice. > Except of course that i didn't! > Note that the first and second move medium commands are identical -- i.e. > same source and destination. Exactly. I _suspect_ what happens (tho i won't be able to check before next week now) is the drive ejecting the tape causing the move medium to return with a unit attention, or maybe some other kind of returncode that the driver then treats as a temporary failure so it simply retries the command. > > > My guess is that your problem is that your autoloader is configured in > > > autoloader mode instead of changer mode or something. > > > > > Hmm i didn't have the sucker's manual handy to check this, so > > at the moment i can only say that chio does work on it with > > regular tapes... > > Ahh. So you probably have it in changer mode. > Yep i would guess so too. :) Regards, -- Juergen Lock <nox.foo@jelal.kn-bremen.de> (remove dot foo from address to reply) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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