Bad SDLT 320 - updates?

From: Sumeet Chandwani (sumeetpchandwani@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Feb 04 2005 - 08:06:36 EST


Hi ,

I was facing similar problems as mentioned in the mail
below from Chris. Current Setup is E450 server with
DLT 7000 drive connected to it.

Feb 4 16:46:56 vmail scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning]
WARNING: /pci@1f,4000/scsi@2/st@4,0 (st11):
Feb 4 16:46:56 SCSI transport failed: reason
'incomplete': retrying command
Feb 4 16:46:57 scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning]
WARNING: /pci@1f,4000/scsi@2/st@4,0 (st11):
Feb 4 16:46:57 SCSI transport failed: reason
'incomplete': giving up
 

  DUMP: Writing 32 Kilobyte records
  DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Fri Feb 04 15:41:47
2005
  DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch
  DUMP: Dumping /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0 (/) to
/dev/rmt/1cn.
  DUMP: Mapping (Pass I) [regular files]
  DUMP: Mapping (Pass II) [directories]
  DUMP: Estimated 7316156 blocks (3572.34MB).
  DUMP: Dumping (Pass III) [directories]
  DUMP: Dumping (Pass IV) [regular files]
  DUMP: 48.59% done, finished in 0:10
  DUMP: Write error 31340 feet into tape 1
  DUMP: NEEDS ATTENTION: Do you want to restart?:
("yes" or "no")
  DUMP: NEEDS ATTENTION: Do you want to restart?:
("yes" or "no")
  DUMP: NEEDS ATTENTION: Do you want to restart?:
("yes" or "no")
  DUMP: NEEDS ATTENTION: Do you want to restart?:
("yes" or "no")
  DUMP: NEEDS ATTENTION: Do you want to restart?:
("yes" or "no")
  DUMP: NEEDS ATTENTION: Do you want to restart?:
("yes" or "no")
  DUMP: NEEDS ATTENTION: Do you want to restart?:
("yes" or "no") no
  DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted.
  DUMP: Writing 32 Kilobyte records
  DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Fri Feb 04 16:47:47
2005
  DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch
  DUMP: Dumping /dev/rdsk/c10t5d0s0 (/sunone) to
/dev/rmt/1cn.
  DUMP: Mapping (Pass I) [regular files]
  DUMP: Mapping (Pass II) [directories]
  DUMP: Estimated 55534568 blocks (27116.49MB).
  DUMP: NEEDS ATTENTION: Cannot open
`vmail:/dev/rmt/1cn'. Do you want to retry the open?:
("yes" or "no") YES
  DUMP: NEEDS ATTENTION: Cannot open
`vmail:/dev/rmt/1cn'. Do you want to retry the open?:
("yes" or "no") yes
  DUMP: NEEDS ATTENTION: Cannot open
`vmail:/dev/rmt/1cn'. Do you want to retry the open?:
("yes" or "no")

After that DLT does not detected (mt command fails) &
I hv to restart the DLT.

Could you provide any insights / suggestions abt the
same.
Any help would be highly appreciated.

Thanks & Regards,
Sumeet

Mail from Chris:-
Bad SDLT 320?

Before I go to all the trouble of trying to get Sun to
replace my tape
drive, I wanted to tap some of the experience that's
on this list to
see if what I'm seeing would point to a bad tape
drive.

Have a V240 hooked up to a Sun SDLT 320 drive. Up
until this week it was
backing up ~60 Gigs worth of data using AMANDA (been
doing so for 7
months). That 60 gigs is spread across 3 servers, 1 of
which 1 is local
and the rest are remote.

When AMANDA does backups, it'll consistently fail on a
remote 25 gig
partition (and only this partition). The errors that
AMANDA gives
(which from my understanding are just passed along
dump errors) are:

  devl2 /dev/md/dsk/d8 lev 0 FAILED [out of tape]
  devl2 /dev/md/dsk/d8 lev 0 FAILED ["data write:
Broken pipe"]
  devl2 /dev/md/dsk/d8 lev 0 FAILED [dump to tape
failed]

After this the tape drive is unresponsive to any
commands, and the
following errors show up in /var/adm/messages:

Aug 26 09:10:54 prod2 scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning]
WARNING: /pci@1c,600000/scsi@2,1/st@5,0 (st12):
Aug 26 09:10:54 prod2 SCSI transport failed: reason
'incomplete':
retrying command
Aug 26 09:10:56 prod2 scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning]
WARNING: /pci@1c,600000/scsi@2,1/st@5,0 (st12):
Aug 26 09:10:56 prod2 SCSI transport failed: reason
'incomplete':
retrying command
Aug 26 09:10:57 prod2 scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning]
WARNING: /pci@1c,600000/scsi@2,1/st@5,0 (st12):
Aug 26 09:10:57 prod2 SCSI transport failed: reason
'incomplete':
giving up
Aug 26 09:26:39 prod2 scsi: [ID 365881
kern.info] /pci@1c,600000/scsi@2,1 (glm1):
Aug 26 09:26:39 prod2 Cmd (0x1b37578) dump for
Target 5 Lun 0:
Aug 26 09:26:39 prod2 scsi: [ID 365881
kern.info] /pci@1c,600000/scsi@2,1 (glm1):
Aug 26 09:26:39 prod2 cdb=[ 0xa 0x0 0x0 0x80
0x0 0x0 ]
Aug 26 09:26:39 prod2 scsi: [ID 365881
kern.info] /pci@1c,600000/scsi@2,1 (glm1):
Aug 26 09:26:39 prod2 pkt_flags=0x0
pkt_statistics=0x61 pkt_state=0x7
Aug 26 09:26:39 prod2 scsi: [ID 365881
kern.info] /pci@1c,600000/scsi@2,1 (glm1):
Aug 26 09:26:39 prod2 pkt_scbp=0x0 cmd_flags=0x18e1
Aug 26 09:26:39 prod2 scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning]
WARNING: /pci@1c,600000/scsi@2,1 (glm1):
Aug 26 09:26:39 prod2 Disconnected command timeout
for Target 5.0
Aug 26 09:26:39 prod2 genunix: [ID 408822 kern.info]
NOTICE: glm1: fault
detected in device; service still available
Aug 26 09:26:39 prod2 genunix: [ID 611667 kern.info]
NOTICE: glm1:
Disconnected command timeout for Target 5.0
Aug 26 09:26:39 prod2 glm: [ID 160360 kern.warning]
WARNING:
ID[SUNWpd.glm.cmd_timeout.6016]
Aug 26 09:26:39 prod2 scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning]
WARNING: /pci@1c,600000/scsi@2,1/st@5,0 (st12):
Aug 26 09:26:39 prod2 SCSI transport failed: reason
'timeout': giving
up

Cycling the tape drive will have it respond to mt
again.

If I try to do a dump manually from the local machine,
I'll consistently
get:

</> # ufsdump -0f /dev/rmt/1n /dev/md/dsk/d6
  DUMP: Writing 32 Kilobyte records
  DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Thu Aug 26 09:05:39
2004
  DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch
  DUMP: Dumping /dev/md/rdsk/d6 (prod2:/prod) to
/dev/rmt/1n.
  DUMP: Mapping (Pass I) [regular files]
  DUMP: Mapping (Pass II) [directories]
  DUMP: Estimated 35790376 blocks (17475.77MB).
  DUMP: Dumping (Pass III) [directories]
  DUMP: Dumping (Pass IV) [regular files]
  DUMP: Write error 106032 feet into tape 1
  DUMP: NEEDS ATTENTION: Do you want to restart?:
("yes" or "no")

This happens on a number of tapes, so I doubt it's a
tape error.

Is this a clear case of a bad tape drive? Tonight I'll
try on a second
V240 with a different SCSI cable just to be sure. I
have run a cleaning
tape through it for good measure.

Thanks,
Chris

                
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