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Re: [Bacula-users] Running tapeinfo - INQUIRY Command Failed message?

2008-08-19 23:25:26
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Running tapeinfo - INQUIRY Command Failed message?
From: Ryan Novosielski <novosirj AT umdnj DOT edu>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:24:40 -0400
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Dagan McGregor wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: bacula-users-bounces AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
>> [mailto:bacula-users-bounces AT lists.sourceforge DOT net] On Behalf
>> Of Ryan Novosielski
>> Sent: Wednesday, 20 August 2008 12:42 PM
>> To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
>> Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Running tapeinfo - INQUIRY
>> Command Failed message?
>>
>>>  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.
> 
>  Ahh, yes, my mistake for not reading the documentation thoroughly enough! 
> Tapeinfo does indeed needs to be run through the general device, /dev/sg1 in 
> my case
> 
> # tapeinfo -f /dev/sg1
> Product Type: Tape Drive
> Vendor ID: 'IBM     '
> Product ID: 'HH LTO Gen 3    '
> Revision: '73P8'
> Attached Changer: No
> SerialNumber: '1020008840'
> MinBlock:1
> MaxBlock:16777215
> SCSI ID: 1
> SCSI LUN: 0
> Ready: yes
> BufferedMode: yes
> Medium Type: 0x38
> Density Code: 0x44
> BlockSize: 0
> DataCompEnabled: yes
> DataCompCapable: yes
> DataDeCompEnabled: yes
> CompType: 0x1
> DeCompType: 0x1
> BOP: yes
> Block Position: 0
> 
>  Thanks for the tip :)

Glad I could help.

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