HP 1/8 Ultrium 448 G2 Tape Autoloader -- installation issue
Dear All,
I am trying to install in Debian etch.
Tape Drive
Ultra320 SCSI Host Bus Adapter
HP 1/8 Ultrium 448 G2 Tape Autoloader
Host Server
HP Proliant DL385 G2 Rack Server with AMD Opteron 64 bit,
HP Smart array p400/512MB BBWC Controller (RAID 5), 146GB x 4 HDD
Linux, I am using is
Linux version 2.6.18-4-amd64 (Debian 2.6.18.dfsg.1-12) (waldi@debian.org) (gcc version 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)) #1 SMP Mon Mar 26 19:17:44 UTC 2007
I am facing problem with the tape drive access.
#mt -f /dev/st0 status
mt: /dev/st0: No medium found.
#tar cvf /dev/st0 /tmp
tar: /dev/st0: cannot write: Input/Output error.
but my lspci, dmesg and lsmod is showing necessary informations.
lspci :
0c:08.0 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 53c1030 PCI-X Fusion-MPT Dual Ultra320 SCSI (rev c1)
dmesg (truncated):
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SCSI subsystem initialized
HP CISS Driver (v 3.6.10)
Fusion MPT base driver 3.04.01
Copyright (c) 1999-2005 LSI Logic Corporation
Fusion MPT SPI Host driver 3.04.01
scsi0 : ioc0: LSI53C1030, FwRev=01032700h, Ports=1, MaxQ=255, IRQ=193
Vendor: HP Model: Ultrium 2-SCSI Rev: S63W
Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03
target0:0:4: Beginning Domain Validation
target0:0:4: Domain Validation skipping write tests
target0:0:4: Ending Domain Validation
target0:0:4: FAST-80 WIDE SCSI 160.0 MB/s DT (12.5 ns, offset 64)
Vendor: HP Model: 1x8 G2 AUTOLDR Rev: 1.70
Type: Medium Changer ANSI SCSI revision: 05
hda: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 1654kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
SCSI Media Changer driver v0.25
ch0: type #1 (mt): 0x0+1 [medium transport]
ch0: type #2 (st): 0x3e9+8 [storage]
ch0: type #3 (ie): 0x0+0 [import/export]
ch0: type #4 (dt): 0x1+1 [data transfer]
ch0: dt 0x1: ID 4, LUN 0, name: HP Ultrium 2-SCSI S63W
ch0: INITIALIZE ELEMENT STATUS, may take some time ...
ch0: ... finished
ch 0:0:4:1: Attached scsi changer ch0
Attempting manual resume
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
st: Version 20050830, fixed bufsize 32768, s/g segs 256
st 0:0:4:0: Attached scsi tape st0
st0: try direct i/o: yes (alignment 512 B)
st 0:0:4:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 1
ch 0:0:4:1: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 8
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lsmod | grep "mpt"
st 35292 0
mptspi 22672 1
mptscsih 29184 1 mptspi
mptbase 56672 2 mptspi,mptscsih
scsi_transport_spi 31488 1 mptspi
scsi_mod 153008 7 sg,st,ch,mptspi,mptscsih,scsi_transport_spi,cciss
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With Regards,
Nahalingam N. K.
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