John Fitzpatrick wrote:
> Hello everyone, 
> 
> I hope someone can point me in the right direction. 
> 
> I'm using bacula release 1.38.5 -- redhat 9 which while old was happily 
> backing up every night. 
> 
> We had a power cut and while bacula was not doing anything when this happened 
> a tape got stuck in the powervault 128T so I removed the tape and loaded a 
> new one, now bacula will not mount the drive it complains: 
> 
> *mount 
> Using default Catalog name=MyCatalog DB=bacula 
> Automatically selected Storage: PV128T 
> Connecting to Storage daemon PV128T at ie-serv-2:9103 ... 
> 3301 Issuing autochanger "loaded drive 0" command. 
> 3302 Autochanger "loaded drive 0", result: nothing loaded. 
> dev.c:362 dev.c:356 Unable to open device "Drive-1" (/dev/nst0): ERR=No such 
> device 
> 3901 open device failed: ERR=dev.c:356 Unable to open device "Drive-1" 
> (/dev/nst0): ERR=No such device 
> 
> There is no drive 0 but drive 1 is running with 
> 
> Any help greatly appreciated 
> 

This type of device are very sensible to power-outage, and tape disaster.

I think the best way to get it back is :
Eject any tape inside the drive
Shutdown the server again but properly.
Remove the power plug, press the start button to really empty rest of 
electricity.

Replug, restart. This manipulation save me a lot of time with scsi recalcitrant 
device.



-- 

     Bruno Friedmann



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