On Apr 13, 2006, at 1:11 PM — 4/13/06, Chris Read wrote:
Hi, I'm a new poster to this list, but have used NetWorker for over
10 years
on Sun boxes.
I just moved our software from a Sun Solaris box to a Fedora Core 4
x86 box.
Dell Pentium D Server
ATTO ExpressPCI UL4D SCSI Card
Sony SAIT-1 Stand Alone SCSI drive
Networker 7.3
The install seems to be basically working. I can label and mount a
tape and
start a backup. It runs fine until the tape is full.
The problem is that after unmounting the first tape, I want to
label and
mount a second tape. When I bring up the label window (and confirm
that the
Device, Volume Label, Pools, etc. are all correct) and press OK, an
error
window pops up that says "write open error: drive status is" and
then a
blank line.
Sometimes it's "read open error" instead, but that's all I can get
out of
it. I was only able to do anything with the drive by rebooting the
PC, but
again, after it was done with the one tape, it hung with the same
problem.
Any pointers or suggestions would be appreciated.
What I am about to say may seem silly, especially considering your
email address, but try cleaning that tape drive, even if it was
recently cleaned.
Do you get any SCSI error messages on your server? I've got a
PetaSite library with 13 S-AIT drives and after using it for nearly
18 months now, I have learned what happens if those tape drives are
not cleaned on a regular basis. Our Sony hardware is excellent, but
the tape drives will balk when they are not cleaned enough. I am
using a Solaris 9 box with NetWorker 7.2.1 with our tape library
connected to it via fibre channel, but I have seen the same behavior
occur that you described. I have also seen that behavior stop after
doing a tape drive cleaning.
Oh, and double-check with software tech support that your S-AIT1
drive is using the latest firmware.
I also suggest you try mounting a tape you can afford to overwrite
and then blow out its label with tar. Then try relabeling that tape
again via NetWorker and see what happens.
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