> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Arno Lehmann <al AT its-lehmann DOT de>
> To: Bacula Users <bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
> Sent: Friday, October 31, 2008 2:57:58 PM
> Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] No tar for my tape drive!?!? SAS tape library
> help...
>
> Hi,
Hello. :)
> 31.10.2008 20:21, Michael Kahle wrote:
<snip>
>> And tried:
>>> mt -f /dev/nst0 defcompression
>>
>> No output there. Here are the messages after I ran those two commands:
>>> dmesg | tail
>> st0: Sense Key : Aborted Command [current]
>> st0: Add. Sense: Initiator response timeout
>> st0: Sense Key : Aborted Command [current]
>> st0: Add. Sense: Initiator response timeout
>
> This looks bad... usually, you shouldn't see this sort of things...
> timeouts typically indicate something is seriously going wron on the
> SCSI bus (or, in your case, the SAS links. Might be a drive
> misconfiguration.
>
> Have you tried if IBM has a dedicated driver for their SAS tapes? I
> know there is IBMtape available and IBM recommends it for their SCSI
> tapes (admittedly, the default linux tape drivers seem to work fine,
> too) so it might be worth trying IBMtape.
>
> Arno
Thanks Arno. IBM does have a dedicated driver. I didn't think it necessary. =/
Their support for Linux is isolated to RH and Suse. Groan. I run Debian. I
did find the drivers you were referring to however.
ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/storage/devdrvr/Linux/
In the directory "lin_tape_source-lin_taped" they have a file
"lin_tape-1.19.0-1.src.rpm.bin"
I downloaded this file and ran alien on it. Inside was a file
"lin_tape-1.19.0.tgz" which I extracted and was left with a source file
directory.
Going into this directory I noticed a ton of files and in the makefile it is
laced with calls to rpmbuild. Now I'm getting scared. I'm afraid this is
rapidly getting much more difficult. I wonder if I should package this thing
back up and get one that supports standards. =/
Michael
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