Hi,
We have a Quantum LTO Tape library with a bunch of drives. Our Linux
networker server sees one of the partitions. We have just finally
implemented persistent binding on the Linux host and things are working
better. Before that, we needed to reconfigure the tape library with
every Linux reboot. The next issue seems to be when a tape drive goes
awry, it loses its drive mapping and issues a SCSI reset, which in turn
reorders the tape drives dynamically. Has anyone else had this
experience and are there any ideas as to how to circumvent this problem.
I have reached out internally to my Linux group who are looking into it.
I asked Quantum and they know about it but don't have any solution for
me as of yet. Finally, EMC says it's a Linux issue and not specific to
networker. BTW, when this happens, we wind up needing to bring down 3
separate netwoker environments and 3 library partitions, hard booting
the library and rebooting the Linux networker server/ storage node.
Thanks for any help.
Raymond Davis
Quest Diagnostics | Sr. Storage Engineer | 1200 Wall St West |
Lyndhurst, NJ 07071 USA | phone +1.201.729.7882 | mobile
+1.201.841.2335 | Raymond.P.Davis AT QuestDiagnostics DOT com |
www.QuestDiagnostics.com
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