[Veritas-bu] Problems with Fujifilm and Quantum DLT7000

I had same SCSI I/O error, and i looked into every level of my system and 
found out that the firmware on HBA card attached to the server was the 
culprit.

Reason was that my emulex HBA cards was running on updated firmware 3.9 and 
my tape drives were not able to digest it, so i downgraded the firmware to 
3.0.3, and its working perfect now.

vidit





From: "Dongfang Liao" <dongfang.liao AT rogers DOT com>
To: "Andrew Shinkarev" <shinkara AT pprd.abbott DOT com>,        
<veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu>
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Problems with Fujifilm and Quantum DLT7000
Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2002 12:40:27 -0500

According to the "SCSI transport failed: " error that Craig listed, it is
nothing related to the tape. the reason is the device doesn't response or
delay to response the request from the host. I would suspect some hardware
issue between the ADIC and the host.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Shinkarev" <shinkara AT pprd.abbott DOT com>
To: <veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu>
Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 11:49 PM
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Problems with Fujifilm and Quantum DLT7000


 > On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 06:56:26PM -0600, scott.kendall AT abbott DOT com 
 > wrote:
 >
 > Fuji tape is coming cleaner, Maxell tape is more resistant to
 > heat and excessive usage.
 > If you are not feeding your tape drive well Maxell is better.
 >
 >
 >
 > >
 > > All "logo'd" DLT Type IV tapes are either FujiFilm or Maxell, 
regardless
of
 > > who has slapped their name on it.
 > >
 > > I seem to have better luck with Maxell.  I have talked to others that
seem to
 > > have better luck with FujiFilm.
 > >
 > > Seeing that these are the only two manufacturers, one could guess that
 > > FujiFilm makes up somewhere between 35% - 65% of the market.  With the
market
 > > share split like this, I really doubt that one is superior to the other
or
 > > more people would be talking about it more often.
 > >
 > >
 > > - Scott
 > >
 > >
 > >
 > >
 > >
 > >                     "Craig Everett"
 > >                     <ceverett AT virtual DOT com>               To:
"Veritas Netbackup" <veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu>
 > >                     Sent by:                             cc:
 > >                     veritas-bu-admin AT mailman DOT eng.        Subject:
[Veritas-bu] Problems with Fujifilm and Quantum DLT7000
 > >                     auburn.edu
 > >
 > >
 > >                     02/27/2002 06:26 PM
 > >
 > >
 > >
 > >
 > >
 > >
 > > I'm running Datacenter 3.4 on an Ultra 60 with Solaris 8, using an ADIC
 > > Faststor DLT7000 and Fujifilm DLT4 tapes. I'm also using the
 > > on-board/built-in SE SCSI controller that comes with the Ultra60 to
attach
 > > the ADIC. I'm getting SCSI timeout errors:
 > >
 > > Feb 26 13:30:21 mmc-san-vbu01-p scsi: [ID 365881 kern.info]
 > > /pci@1f,4000/scsi@3,1 (glm1):
 > > Feb 26 13:30:21 mmc-san-vbu01-p         Cmd (0x245c88) dump for Target 
5
Lun
 > > 0:
 > > Feb 26 13:30:21 mmc-san-vbu01-p scsi: [ID 365881 kern.info]
 > > /pci@1f,4000/scsi@3,1 (glm1):
 > > Feb 26 13:30:21 mmc-san-vbu01-p                 cdb=[ 0x11 0x1 0x0 0x0
0xcc
 > > 0x0 ]
 > > Feb 26 13:30:21 mmc-san-vbu01-p scsi: [ID 365881 kern.info]
 > > /pci@1f,4000/scsi@3,1 (glm1):
 > > Feb 26 13:30:21 mmc-san-vbu01-p         pkt_flags=0x0
pkt_statistics=0x61
 > > pkt_state=0x7
 > > Feb 26 13:30:21 mmc-san-vbu01-p scsi: [ID 365881 kern.info]
 > > /pci@1f,4000/scsi@3,1 (glm1):
 > > Feb 26 13:30:21 mmc-san-vbu01-p         pkt_scbp=0x0 cmd_flags=0xe1
 > > Feb 26 13:30:21 mmc-san-vbu01-p scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING:
 > > /pci@1f,4000/scsi@3,1 (glm1):
 > > Feb 26 13:30:21 mmc-san-vbu01-p         Disconnected command timeout 
for
 > > Target 5.0
 > > Feb 26 13:30:21 mmc-san-vbu01-p glm: [ID 160360 kern.warning] WARNING:
 > > ID[SUNWpd.glm.cmd_timeout.6016]
 > > Feb 26 13:30:21 mmc-san-vbu01-p scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING:
 > > /pci@1f,4000/scsi@3,1/st@5,0 (st12):
 > > Feb 26 13:30:21 mmc-san-vbu01-p         SCSI transport failed: reason
 > > 'timeout': giving up
 > >
 > > All my Netbackup and Sun patches are current and correct. My firmware 
is
all
 > > up to date as well. Sun and ADIC tell me it's not a good idea to have 
an
 > > autoloader hanging off of the onboard SE SCSI port and that that is 
what
is
 > > causing my timeouts and subsequent backup failure. Has anyone heard of
this
 > > before? Also have you had any timeout issues while using fujifilm tapes
on a
 > > quantum dlt7000?
 > >
 > >
 > > Thanks,
 > >
 > > Craig Everett
 > > ASG Professional Services
 > > Systems Consultant
 > > Office 858.277.9544
 > > Fax 858.277.1229
 > > ceverett AT virtual DOT com
 > > (See attached file: Craig Everett.vcf)
 > >
 >
 >
 >
 > --
 > ----
 > Andrew Shinkarev
 > Network Systems Specialist
 > Abbott Laboratories
 > (847) 9387559
 > shinkara AT pprd.abbott DOT com
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