Topic: 7.0pre1 SCSI tape drive aic7xxx problems

[jahlewis]

After upgrading to 7.0pre1 from 6.0.1-0.1, I'm not able to get my server to access my DLT drive.  The drive is on, tape inserted and ready.  Backps are enabled in server-manager, but error out with a 256 error.

What are the steps with the new kernel to recognize the drive so tape backups can work?

[root@gluon ~]# lsmod |grep aic
aic7xxx               147993  0
scsi_mod              121293  3 st,aic7xxx,sd_mod

[root@gluon ~]# modprobe aic7xxx
[root@gluon ~]# dmesg
[... snip ...]
scsi0 : Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 6.2.36
        <Adaptec 2940 Ultra2 SCSI adapter>
        aic7890/91: Ultra2 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 32/253 SCBs

(scsi0:A:5): 20.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 15, 16bit)
  Vendor: QUANTUM   Model: DLT7000           Rev: 1E46
  Type:   Sequential-Access                  ANSI SCSI revision: 02
[... snip ...]
st: Version 20040403, fixed bufsize 32768, s/g segs 256
Attached scsi tape st0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 5, lun 0
st0: try direct i/o: yes (alignment 512 B), max page reachable by HBA 1048575
st0: Block limits 2 - 16777214 bytes.
[... snip ...]
st0: Failed to read 10240 byte block with 2048 byte transfer.

[CharlieBrady]

After upgrading to 7.0pre1 from 6.0.1-0.1, I'm not able to get my server to access my DLT drive.

The only place to report anything non-funcitonal after a new install or an upgrade is via the Bug Tracker. Please use the link to the left. Please report all potentially relevant information.

Thanks.

[jahlewis]

will do.  I was fishing for help on diagnosing and mounting scsi device tape drives to verify if this was a local config problem, or an issue with smeserver.

I'll report via bug tracker as well.  Thanks.