Topic: Sony AIT IDE Drive Advice

[gbentley]

I have checked the forums and there seems to be posts from about a year ago on the above subject.

Can anyone point me in the right direction of a HCL (Looked at RH but not 'certified') or experiences using these drives on SM7.2 ?

http://www.dabs.com/ProductView.aspx?quicklinx=3G94

Thanks !!!

[byte]

http://www.dabs.com/ProductView.aspx?quicklinx=3G94

Have a look here...

http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server:Documentation:FAQ#Backups_.26_Restores

Also check the bug tracker for some more info on that model

[gbentley]

Also check the bug tracker for some more info on that model

Byte: Any tips? I searched on keywords 'Sony AIT IDE' whihc didnt throw up anything useful. If anyone has one of these that works ok just an OK would do

I have often wondered if we could start a user compiled list of hardware that is known to work fine with SME ?

[compsos]

What sort of problem are you having?
We have about 6 servers using Sony AIT drives. Some are SCSI and IDE.
From memory we had to set Blocksize to 512 for it to work. After that it has not stopped.

[aznetplus]

We are also having problems with the same Sony Tape drive. The Linux system just doesn't recognize the device at all. We've tried to load / unload the sg, st, and ids_scsi drivers from the kernel but nothing seams to help. The output of dmesg with a grep for 'ide' follows:
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
Probing IDE interface ide0...
Probing IDE interface ide1...
Probing IDE interface ide2...
Probing IDE interface ide3...
Probing IDE interface ide4...
Probing IDE interface ide5...
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide

As you can see, the kernel doesn't see any IDE devices.
Short of recompiling a custom kernel from scratch does anyone have any other recommendations? 

Also if I can't get this drive to work, I need to swap it out for another drive (different brand) that will work. Anyone have any recommendations for a working brand / model that works with SME 7.2

Also the reason I'm trying to use tape backup is so we have a form of off site backup, for disaster recovery.

Compsos can you log in as root on your machine (with a working tape drive) and post the output of this command?
dmesg |grep ide && dmesg |grep sony  That would help, so we actually know what it's using, and what to look for.

Thanks in advance.