Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 14 Jan 1999 16:17:21 -0500 (EST) | From | Gerry Doris <> | Subject | RE: SCSI tape driver suddenly malfunction |
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I hate to ask this but have you tried a different tape??? Perhaps your tape is bad??
Gerry
On 14-Jan-99 Xun Cheng wrote: > Help is desperately needed to make my > backup system back. Sorry for mutiple list posting. > > My scsi tape driver suddenly doesn't work. > It's about 2 months since last proper backup. > I really can't recall what change made it since > too many updates happened since then. I issued > the command tar cvf /dev/st0 /home > After backing up some files, at a fixed point (backing > up the file home/PREDATOR/code/bin/xxx which is > about 14 Mbyte large), error would happen. Following > is the error from system log: > ============= > Jan 14 02:37:34 localhost kernel: st0: Error with sense data: > extra data > not valid Current error st09:00: sense key Medium Error > Jan 14 02:37:34 localhost kernel: Additional sense indicates > Excessive > write errors > Jan 14 02:37:34 localhost kernel: st0: Error with sense data: > extra data > not valid Current error st09:00: sense key Medium Error > Jan 14 02:37:34 localhost kernel: Additional sense indicates > Excessive > write errors > Jan 14 02:37:34 localhost kernel: st0: Error on write > filemark. > ================= > I'm not sure which info are needed for your help so > I include the dmesg message in the following: > =================== > Linux version 2.2.0-pre5 (root@phoenux) (gcc version > egcs-2.90.29 980515 > (egcs-1.0.3 release)) #2 Thu Jan 14 00:50:48 /etc/localtime > 1999 > Detected 199436396 Hz processor. > Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 > Calibrating delay loop... 199.07 BogoMIPS > Memory: 257268k/262144k available (1064k kernel code, 408k > reserved, > 3328k data, 76k init) > CPU: Intel Pentium Pro stepping 07 > Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error > reporting. > Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. > POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX > mtrr: v1.26 (19981001) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au) > PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd6b1 > PCI: Using configuration type 1 > PCI: Probing PCI hardware > PCI: 00:00 [8086/1237]: Passive release enable (00) > Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2 > Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 > NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0. > NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 > IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP > Initializing RT netlink socket > Starting kswapd v 1.5 > parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [SPP] > parport0: Printer, HEWLETT-PACKARD DESKJET 680C > Serial driver version 4.27 with no serial options enabled > ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A > lp0: using parport0 (polling). > Real Time Clock Driver v1.09 > Non-volatile memory driver v1.0 > RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size > loop: registered device at major 7 > PIIX3: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39 > PIIX3: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later > ide0: BM-DMA at 0xffa0-0xffa7, BIOS settings: hda:pio, > hdb:pio > ide1: BM-DMA at 0xffa8-0xffaf, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, > hdd:pio > hda: QUANTUM FIREBALL_TM3840A, ATA DISK drive > hdc: FX120T, ATAPI CDROM drive > ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 > ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 > hda: QUANTUM FIREBALL_TM3840A, 3681MB w/76kB Cache, > CHS=935/128/63 > hdc: ATAPI 12X CDROM drive, 256kB Cache > Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.51 > Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M > FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306 > scsi0 : AdvanSys SCSI 3.1E: PCI Ultra 16 CDB: IO FF00/F, IRQ > 10 > scsi : 1 host. > Vendor: ARCHIVE Model: Python 28849-XXX Rev: 4.CM > Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI > revision: 02 > Detected scsi tape st0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 > Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST19171N Rev: 0024 > Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI > revision: 02 > Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0 > scsi : detected 1 SCSI tape 1 SCSI disk total. > SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 17783112 > [8683 MB] > [8.7 GB] > PPP: version 2.3.3 (demand dialling) > TCP compression code copyright 1989 Regents of the University > of > California > PPP line discipline registered. > Partition check: > sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 > hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 < hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 > > VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. > Freeing unused kernel memory: 76k freed > Adding Swap: 104828k swap-space (priority -1) > ===================== > BTW, my scsi hard disk works perfect. > > mt -f /dev/st0 status shows: > ================== > SCSI 2 tape drive: > File number=0, block number=0, partition=0. > Tape block size 0 bytes. Density code 0x24 (DDS-2). > Soft error count since last status=0 > General status bits on (41010000): > BOT ONLINE IM_REP_EN > ==================== > and mtx -f /dev/st0 status shows (if you know what mtx is): > ================= > Data Transfer Element: Full (Storage Element 1 Loaded) > Storage Element 1: Empty > Storage Element 2: Full > Storage Element 3: Full > Storage Element 4: Full > =============== > > Any help is grateful and even some suggestion would be > good. I really don't know what to try to find the reason. > Please CC to me directly when you reply. > > thanks a lot > xun > > > -- > PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING > LIST ARCHIVES! > http://www.redhat.com http://archive.redhat.com > To unsubscribe: mail redhat-list-request@redhat.com > with > "unsubscribe" as the Subject.
---------------------------------- E-Mail: Gerry Doris <gdoris@shaw.wave.ca> Date: 14-Jan-99 Time: 16:16:44
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