From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 8 06:29:23 2003 Return-Path: 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 302C437B401 for ; Tue, 8 Jul 2003 06:29:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from spxgate.servplex.com (ip66-105-58-82.z58-105-66.customer.algx.net [66.105.58.82]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38F1643F75 for ; Tue, 8 Jul 2003 06:29:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@servplex.com) Received: from peter.servplex.com ([192.168.0.96]) by spxgate.servplex.com (8.12.8/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h68DeTCe091160; Tue, 8 Jul 2003 08:40:29 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from peter@servplex.com) Message-Id: <5.2.0.9.2.20030708082745.017879f8@mail.servplex.com> X-Sender: peter@mail.servplex.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.2.0.9 Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2003 08:29:31 -0500 To: Joseph Koenig From: Peter Elsner In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tape Drive Problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2003 13:29:23 -0000 Could be a bad drive, bad tape, bad cable... Try a new tape and cleaning the drive with a tape cleaning cartridge. I assume you have rebooted and tried again (just to make sure it wasn't a hangup)? Power down the server, and open up the case, look for loose data cables, or loose SCSI card. (it happens)... If everything checks out fine, find another tape drive to test with... Peter At 08:22 AM 7/8/2003 -0500, you wrote: >Hi, > >I have a Dell PowerEdge server with a RAID 5 and a SCSI tape drive. For the >past two years, the tape drive has worked fine. All of the sudden I get: > > DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Mon Jun 16 01:00:00 2003 > DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch > DUMP: Dumping /dev/aacd0s1a (/) to /dev/sa0 > DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files] > DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories] > DUMP: estimated 297479 tape blocks. > DUMP: Cannot open output "/dev/sa0". > DUMP: fopen on /dev/tty fails: Device not configured > DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted. > >When doing a dump. mt status shows: > >server1# mt -f /dev/sa0 status >mt: /dev/sa0: Input/output error > >Does this sound like a scsi bus problem, or perhaps a bad drive? Anything I >can do to tell for sure what the problem is? Thanks, > >Joe > >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Anything below this line, is considered a signature line. If you do not know what a signature is within an email STOP here and do not read any further. Thank you. _________________________________________________________________________ Peter Elsner Vice President Of Customer Service (And System Administrator) 1835 S. Carrier Parkway Grand Prairie, Texas 75051 (972) 263-2080 - Voice (972) 263-2082 - Fax (972) 489-4838 - Cell Phone (425) 988-8061 - eFax I worry about my child and the Internet all the time, even though she's too young to have logged on yet. Here's what I worry about. I worry that 10 or 15 years from now, she will come to me and say "Daddy, where were you when they took freedom of the press away from the Internet?" -- Mike Godwin Unix IS user friendly... It's just selective about who its friends are. System Administration - It's a dirty job, but somebody said I had to do it. If you receive something that says 'Send this to everyone you know, pretend you don't know me. Standard $500/message proofreading fee applies for UCE. (NOTE: UCE is Unsolicited Commercial Email also known as SPAM or junk mail).