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Dagan McGregor wrote:
>>> I have been trying to get some information through the
>> tapeinfo command about my tape drive, but when running, it
>> returns a INQUIRY Command Failed message.
>>> Is this common? Or is this a sign of a problem with my tape drive?
>>>
>>> The drive we are using is an IBM 400/800GB HH LTO Gen 3
>> SAS tape drive (P/N 43W8478). I have had a look for linux
>> drivers for this, but not having much luck through IBM's site.
>>
>> - From what I've been told, it will do that while running. I
>> find this to
>> be unfortunate, as I'd love to run tapeinfo while my backups
>> are running
>> so that I can check things out. On Solaris, at least, that
>> seems not to
>> be possible. Perhaps someone will correct me.
>
> When you say running, do you mean running Bacula?
>
> I don't have Bacula running, and there shouldn't be any applications
> accessing the drive other than tapeinfo.
>
> Are there other tools I can use to confirm if anything is accessing the
> drive?
Oh, I'm sorry, I misread that! BTW, are you running Linux? I've heard on
Linux you may need to load the SCSI generic kernel module and run the
program against the generic device name (/dev/sg0, etc.). I have only
ever run the storage daemon on Solaris where this is not necessary.
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