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[Veritas-bu] drives showing UNKNOWN

2006-03-23 11:17:04
Subject: [Veritas-bu] drives showing UNKNOWN
From: Ying.Xu AT telecheck DOT com (Xu, Ying)
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 10:17:04 -0600
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Leave the drive down, and reset the tape library when you get chance. 

-----Original Message-----
From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Dave 
Markham
Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2006 9:51 AM
To: andrew.x.smith AT jpmchase DOT com
Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] drives showing UNKNOWN

Ops have been to the unit and seen there are physically no tapes in the
drive.

I just need to rule out netbackup thinking there is to prove there is a h/w
problem.

Dave

andrew.x.smith AT jpmchase DOT com wrote:
>
> The mt status showing no tape can mean the tape is ejected, but still 
> in the drive - have u tried moving the UNKNOWN tape from the drive 
> using robtest? m d3 s?? ? I suspect that will work (and the library 
> just wasnt able to read the barcode for these tapes). If it doesnt 
> then you probably have a hardware fault.
>
>
>
>
>       *Dave Markham <dave.markham AT fjserv DOT net>* Sent by: 
> veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
>
> 23/03/2006 15:14
> Please respond to dave.markham
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>         Subject:        [Veritas-bu] drives showing UNKNOWN
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>
>
> Netbackup 5.0 mp5s2 on solaris 8 connected to L1000 with 4 DLT7000 
> drives in.
>
> Has anyone seen it where robtest shows drive with barcode UNKNOWN, yet 
> there are no tapes in the drive?
>
> Invoking robotic test utility:
> /usr/openv/volmgr/bin/tldtest -r /dev/sg/c3t0l0 -d1 /dev/rmt/0cbn -d2 
> /dev/rmt/1cbn -d3 /dev/rmt/2cbn -d4 /dev/rmt/3cbn
>
> Opening /dev/sg/c3t0l0
> MODE_SENSE complete
> Enter tld commands (? returns help information) s d drive 1 (addr 128) 
> access = 1 Contains Cartridge = no SCSI ID from drive 1 is 2 drive 2 
> (addr 129) access = 1 Contains Cartridge = no SCSI ID from drive 2 is 
> 3 drive 3 (addr 130) access = 1 Contains Cartridge = yes Barcode = 
> UNKNOWN SCSI ID from drive 3 is 4 drive 4 (addr 131) access = 1 
> Contains Cartridge = yes Barcode = UNKNOWN SCSI ID from drive 4 is 5 
> READ_ELEMENT_STATUS complete
>
>
> The drives keep going down if i up them and a job tries to use them.
>
> I currently have them in a down state. The drives are flashing, but 
> the akibia support after not responding for ages are trying to say its 
> a netbackup problem as mt -f /dev/rmt/2cbn status shows there is no 
> tape loaded. ( which it wouldnt because there isnt one )
>
> # for d in 0 1 2 3; do mt -f /dev/rmt/$d'cbn' status; done
> /dev/rmt/0cbn: no tape loaded or drive offline
> /dev/rmt/1cbn: no tape loaded or drive offline
> /dev/rmt/2cbn: no tape loaded or drive offline
> /dev/rmt/3cbn: no tape loaded or drive offline
>
>
> I am thinking the drives are goosed and robtest cannot talk to them to 
> get a clear picture. Is this on the right track?
>
> Anyone any ideas?
>
>
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