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Re: [Networker] Linux / Qualstar / AIT-5
2009-03-09 00:21:45
Charles,
Thank you. I do remember that SCSI issue. From what you say, it
sounds like I'd be best off upgrading
Networker before upgrading the OS, assuming 7.3 and greater will work
with the older 2.4 kernel. That way,
with each upgrade, I should still have a working system. So far, I've
had no trouble with the AIT-5 drives.
Too bad about SAIT -- even worse than my wanting to shoot SONY for
having incompatible AIT-4 drives.
Matt
Charles Weber wrote:
Are you sure the problem is AIT?
As I recall Linux 2.6 kernel on RH/CentOS/Fedora changed something in
SCSI so that any operation on Legato < 7.3 took forever and often timed
out. I was bit by it and definitely saw comments about it in legato list
so you should be able to search.
I had 2 qualstar SAIT libraries on CentOS and moved from 72-73-74 with
no problems. I think I had to wait on 7.3 before I could use the 2.6
kernel.
On Sun, 2009-03-08 at 12:46 -0400, Matt Temple wrote:
Hello,
For many years we've been running an old Linux version with a 2.4
kernel,
Networker 7.2.1, and 2 Qualstar 46120 libraries. Several years ago, I
tried to upgrade
the OS to a 2.6 kernel and had so much grief with the library that I
downgraded
the OS back to FC1, which is really pretty close to AS3 and RH9. I
haven't had
any library issues, but I'd really like to upgrade to a supportable
Linux version as well
as the supported version of Networker. So, is there anyone on the list
(am I the only person
using AIT-5, which I really like?) who uses the following successfully:
AS 4.0 or AS 5.0 (Centos or FC equivalent is fine)
Networker >= 7.3 (we need to backup firewalled sites)
Qualstar 46xxx or similar libraries with AIT-5 (probably AIT-3 would tell
us what we need to know.)
Also, thanks so much for this list.
Matt Temple
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