Hello,
During the backup process (tar cvf /dev/nrmt0h ...) there was a problem
with tape drive (I/O error). After that the drive was unreachable either
with mt or scu. Both diodes (green and yellow) on the drive are
consistently flashing and the drive won't react to the eject button.
In the meantime, the machine was rebooted, but with same results (see
tape.err).
How fo I get the tape out and test the working validity of the tape drive?
On the same SCSI controller are two additional disks and a CD drive
working without problems (DU 4.0d on DEC 1000)
Thanking you in advance
Kresimir Kudumija
FOI Varazdin
www.qsl.net/9a4pa
[tape.err]
# mt -f /dev/nrmt0h offline
Error on device named /dev/nrmt0h - Place TLZ07 tape drive unit #3 ONLINE
# mt -f /dev/nrmt0h unload
Error on device named /dev/nrmt0h - Place TLZ07 tape drive unit #3 ONLINE
# mt -f /dev/nrmt0h status
DEVIOGET ELEMENT CONTENTS
---------------- --------
category DEV_TAPE
bus DEV_SCSI
interface SCSI
device TLZ07
adpt_num 0
nexus_num 0
bus_num 0
ctlr_num 0
slave_num 3
dev_name tz
unit_num 3
soft_count 0
hard_count 388
stat 0x105
DEV_BOM DEV_OFFLINE DEV_HARDERR
category_stat 0x20000
DEV_61000_BPI
DEVGETINFO ELEMENT CONTENTS
------------------ --------
media_status 0x101
BOM HardERR
unit_status 0x182
Offline 2_FM_Close NO_Rewind Compacting Buffered
record_size 0
density (current) 61000 BPI
density (on write) 0 BPI
Filemark Cnt <Not Valid>
Record Cnt <Not Valid>
Class 2 - RDAT
MTIOCGET ELEMENT CONTENTS
---------------- --------
mt_type MT_ISSCSI
mt_dsreg 0x101
DEV_BOM DEV_HARDERR
mt_erreg 0x4 Nonrecoverable hardware error.
mt_resid 0
mt_fileno 0
mt_blkno 0
DEV_EEI_STATUS
version 0x2
status 0x3400 Device hardware error (hard error)
flags 0x1000007
CAM_STATUS SCSI_STATUS SCSI_SENSE CAM_DATA
cam_status 0x4 CCB request completed with an err
scsi_status 0x2 SCSI_STAT_CHECK_CONDITION
scsi_sense_data (hex)
70 0 4 0 0 0 0 a
0 0 0 0 44 b0 0 30
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0
ASC/ASQ = 44/b0 ASC/ASQ code not listed
Received on Fri May 18 2001 - 13:44:43 NZST