Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 19:36:51 +0000 From: pgrunwald@comcast.net To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Still having trouble with tape on Dell 2450 Message-ID: <111820041936.4640.419CF9D3000529E60000122022007354460B040E99029A9D099F@comcast.net>
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I'm still having a little trouble with the Python Drive on a dell 2450. IT was acting really flaky and it turns out that Dell sent me an unterminated cable. I replaced with Dell part number 8459u. Drive is seen at boot: dmesg . . . Waiting 15 seconds for SCSI devices to settle aacd0: <RAID 5> on aac0 aacd0: 52067MB (106633344 sectors) sa0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 6 lun 0 sa0: <ARCHIVE Python 06408-XXX 825B> Removable Sequential Access SCSI-3 device sa0: 40.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 32, 16bit) mt status Mode Density Blocksize bpi Compression Current: 0x26:DDS-4 1024 bytes 97000 DCLZ ---------available modes--------- 0: 0x26:DDS-4 1024 bytes 97000 DCLZ 1: 0x26:DDS-4 1024 bytes 97000 DCLZ 2: 0x26:DDS-4 1024 bytes 97000 DCLZ 3: 0x26:DDS-4 1024 bytes 97000 DCLZ --------------------------------- Current Driver State: at rest. --------------------------------- File Number: 0 Record Number: 0 Residual Count 0 camcontrol eject sa0 does eject the tape. mt rewind immediatly returns as does mt retension mt erase seems to permanently hang the system and I have needed to reboot to kill the process. dump seems to work: dump -0u -a -L -f /dev/sa0 /home DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Thu Nov 18 12:31:29 2004 DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch DUMP: Dumping snapshot of /dev/aacd0s1f (/home) to /dev/sa0 DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files] DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories] DUMP: estimated 1489 tape blocks. DUMP: dumping (Pass III) [directories] DUMP: dumping (Pass IV) [regular files] DUMP: DUMP: 1019 tape blocks on 1 volume DUMP: finished in less than a second DUMP: level 0 dump on Thu Nov 18 12:31:29 2004 DUMP: Closing /dev/sa0 DUMP: DUMP IS DONE I'm having trouble with restore: root@samba:/tmp/restore_test$ mt fsf 1 root@samba:/tmp/restore_test$ restore rf /dev/sa0 tape read error: Unknown error: 0 I was using this page as my guide: http://www.freebsddiary.org/dump-restore.php Any suggestions? Thanks, P.
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