Re: [PLUG] tape drive woes

[Fred K Ollinger <follinge@sas.upenn.edu>]

> On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 03:07:37PM -0400, Fred K Ollinger wrote:
> > The both work flawlessly. Alone.
>
> So without the drive you've got at sga now connected, mt(1) and
> restore(1) work with sgc?

Yes, both drives work well, alone.

I have two drives:

/dev/sga - changer Dell storage vault 128T
/dev/sgc - changer HP surestore

> It'd help to know what the hardware involved is, both whether either
> of these is a tape robot (and, if so, how control of the robot is
> set up) and, really, precisely what kind of tape drive it is.

Both are tape libraries. I think that this is what you mean by robot.

Here's a /proc/scsi/scsi:

Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
  Vendor: HP       Model: C7200            Rev: 131D
  Type:   Medium Changer                   ANSI SCSI revision: 03
Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 01 Lun: 00
  Vendor: HP       Model: Ultrium 1-SCSI   Rev: E15V
  Type:   Sequential-Access                ANSI SCSI revision: 03
Host: scsi2 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
  Vendor: HP       Model: C7145-8000       Rev: 2060
  Type:   Medium Changer                   ANSI SCSI revision: 03
Host: scsi2 Channel: 00 Id: 01 Lun: 00
  Vendor: QUANTUM  Model: DLT8000          Rev: 0114
  Type:   Sequential-Access                ANSI SCSI revision: 02

Any other clues worth looking into?

Fred Ollinger





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