Luiz Casey schrieb:

We have been having several problems with 7.2. running on Solaris 10. Currently we have 3 drives in service mode. We ran an nsrjb -HHE on them to clear them out and renabled them. It then attempted to mount a new tape for labeling, an old tape for appending, and a recyclable tape for re-labeling. All three of these operations resulted in I/O errors. Much of what we saw earlier. We had a hardware tech come out a couple days ago and tell us it was a "leader" problem. He reset the leader on the drives and told us it was caused my bad tapes. Could this be more of the same "leader" problem we were having ?? We also have had problems where it would finish writing the tapes and we would have to manually unmount the tape. Also some tapes would get stuck on "verifying the label" this happens on random drives and random tapes. Just today a new tape got mounted for automatic labeling and failed, so we reset_device and it re-ran the process automatically and it worked.

Any suggestions, ideas, comments would be great. Also let me know if you need additional information.

Hi,

does your message log (i.e. /nsr/logs/daemon.log, /var/log/messages,
/var/adm/syslog, and so on) show any errors ? If so, please post them.

I little bit information about the connectivity Server <--> Library
would be of great help.
Anyway a lot of trouble with SCSI-attached libraries is caused by
bad cabeling.
Have you power cycled everything (i´ve seen many cases - especially
with small libraries - where power cycling helped).

At last i recommend updating to 7.2.2, but not to 7.3 :-)

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