I'm sorry..could you expand on what a TPRLO reset is?   Could a tape
drive issue this to another one on the same controller/bus?


Robert Maiello
Pioneer Data Systems


On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 10:15:01 +0000, Davina Treiber <Treiber AT HOTPOP DOT COM> 
wrote:

>Darren Dunham wrote:
>
>>>Has anyone had a problem where a scsi bus reset rewound the drive without
>>>Networker's knowledge?   Any logs or ways to trace this?
>>
>>
>> I have no evidence that "scsi bus resets" or anything else in particular
>> was the cause, but I have seen tape corruption of older versions of
>> networker that appeared to be caused by unexpected rewinds.
>>
>
>Some SAN hardware using certain older firmware versions suffered from a
>problem where the type of SCSI resets sent was particularly destructive
>in this sense. The solution was to upgrade to firmware versions that did
>not send TPRLO resets.
>
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