Tape Backup Not Recognized
Karl Zander
kzander at commpartners.com
Fri Aug 1 09:30:08 CDT 2008
We have a PE 1950 running CentOS 4.6. We have PowerVault 122T (DLT
160 autoloader) tape backup attached to it. The colo center recently
moved some equipment and the PowerVault stopped working. It is
powered on and the SCSI cable is connected.
The device does not seem to show up as an attached device.
[root at advocate1 bru]# cat /proc/scsi/scsi
Attached devices:
Host: scsi2 Channel: 00 Id: 08 Lun: 00
Vendor: DP Model: BACKPLANE Rev: 1.05
Type: Enclosure ANSI SCSI revision: 05
Host: scsi2 Channel: 02 Id: 00 Lun: 00
Vendor: DELL Model: PERC 5/i Rev: 1.03
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05
dmesg shows this
[root at advocate1 bru]# dmesg | grep scsi
scsi0 : Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 6.2.36
scsi1 : Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 6.2.36
scsi2 : LSI Logic SAS based MegaRAID driver
which shows the SCSI card is recognized.
We can do modprobe for sg
modprobe sg
Attached scsi generic sg0 at scsi2, channel 0, id 8, lun 0, type 13
Attached scsi generic sg1 at scsi2, channel 2, id 0, lun 0, type 0
but without the PV 122T being recognized we can't work with it. And
the /dev/st0 device does not show up either.
I will likely have to go hands on at the colo. Just trying to get
ideas on what I am looking for. It could be as simple as a cable not
connected properly, but beyond that, what am I looking for?
--Karl
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