On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 01:31:59PM +0700, Olivier Nicole wrote:
> > Whenever i run an amanda backup around 30mins into the run I get the
> > following errors in the logs. I've included a few extra unrelated
> > lines at the beginning to give some context.
> > 
> > From what i can see something bad happened, an attempt was made to
> > reset and the SCSI card went offline.
> > 
> > So i'm finally left with the proverbial question: is it hardware or 
> > software?
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Are the tape new?
> 
> Did you try different tape?
> 
> Did you try to write to the tape "by hand": tar cf /dev/st0 ...
> 
> I see that your SCSI card is Ultra 160 but your tape drive is only
> fast wide, do you have any disk pluged in that SCSI interface? It
> should work, but who knows, if you can (have 2 SCSI interface)
> separate fast disks, from slow tape.
> 

> > So i'm finally left with the proverbial question: is it hardware or 
> > software?

The log messages don't sound like software to me,
except maybe the scsi driver.

Continuing Oliver's train

> > The tape drive is a few years old the rest of the hardware is brand new.

I'd guess the SCSI terminator was left on the tape drive from the old
configuration.  Is a fast/wide terminator appropriate for the current
Ultra 160 configuration?

Time to sacrifice a goat to the scsi gods and check all the cables,
terminators, board seatings & settings, and driver & firmware updates.

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