Toasters!
I have been trying for a couple weeks now to get my 3020 to properly see an LTO Gen 3 FC Tape drive.
Environment: FAS3020, attached to Cisco MDS Fabric with ISL between two MDS9509s attached to HP Ultrium 3 LTO3 Drive.
The LTO3 drive is installed in a StorageTek L700 Library which fiber channel robotic control. The backup environment is Symantec Netbackup. There is no extra HBA cards in the FAS3020, so we are using the onboard card.
The Good: I can manually load a tape, the Filer sees the drive/tape.
The Bad: The system always reports back that the tape is a LTO1 200GB read only.
Naturally I tried several other tape drives and tape media, all with the same problem. I have 2 FAS940s that do not have any issue talking to LTO3 Tape drives.
I've downloaded the latest device configuration files from now, I've been working with the technical support at netapp. My best assumption is that the drives are in the wrong block mode.
Has anyone seen anything like this?
__________________________________________________________ Ken Williams Storage Administrator, Business Technology Operations Sacramento Municipal Utility District E-Mail: kwillia@smud.org Phone: (916) 732-6744 Cell: (916) 240-4213
what is the output of:
sysconfig -m sysconfig -t
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From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of Ken Williams Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2007 5:54 PM To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: FAS3020 + FC LTO Gen 3.
Toasters!
I have been trying for a couple weeks now to get my 3020 to properly see an LTO Gen 3 FC Tape drive.
Environment: FAS3020, attached to Cisco MDS Fabric with ISL between two MDS9509s attached to HP Ultrium 3 LTO3 Drive.
The LTO3 drive is installed in a StorageTek L700 Library which fiber channel robotic control. The backup environment is Symantec Netbackup. There is no extra HBA cards in the FAS3020, so we are using the onboard card.
The Good: I can manually load a tape, the Filer sees the drive/tape.
The Bad: The system always reports back that the tape is a LTO1 200GB read only.
Naturally I tried several other tape drives and tape media, all with the same problem. I have 2 FAS940s that do not have any issue talking to LTO3 Tape drives.
I've downloaded the latest device configuration files from now, I've been working with the technical support at netapp. My best assumption is that the drives are in the wrong block mode.
Has anyone seen anything like this?
__________________________________________________________ Ken Williams Storage Administrator, Business Technology Operations Sacramento Municipal Utility District E-Mail: kwillia@smud.org Phone: (916) 732-6744 Cell: (916) 240-4213
Here are the sysconfig outputs, and a mt status command. I'm also seeing scsi Sense Data SCSI errors as well.
filer4> sysconfig -m No medium changers present on system. -----------------------------------------[CUT]-------------------------- -------------------- filer4> sysconfig -t
Tape drive (em2dir1:3-2.116) HP Ultrium 3-SCSI rst0l - rewind device, format is: LTO-I rd only 200GB cmp nrst0l - no rewind device, format is: LTO-I rd only 200GB cmp urst0l - unload/reload device, format is: LTO-I rd only 200GB cmp rst0m - rewind device, format is: LTO-II 400GB cmp nrst0m - no rewind device, format is: LTO-II 400GB cmp urst0m - unload/reload device, format is: LTO-II 400GB cmp rst0h - rewind device, format is: LTO-III 400GB nrst0h - no rewind device, format is: LTO-III 400GB urst0h - unload/reload device, format is: LTO-III 400GB rst0a - rewind device, format is: LTO-III 800GB cmp nrst0a - no rewind device, format is: LTO-III 800GB cmp urst0a - unload/reload device, format is: LTO-III 800GB cmp -----------------------------------------[CUT]-------------------------- -------------------- filer4> mt -f nrst13a status warning: using density LTO-I rd only 200GB cmp to change density you must first rewind the tape. Tape drive: HP Ultrium 3-SCSI Status: ready, write enabled Format: LTO-I rd only 200GB cmp fileno = -1 blockno = -1 resid = 0 -----------------------------------------[CUT]-------------------------- -------------------- filer4> mt -f nrst0a rewind filer4> Thu Apr 5 15:17:33 PDT [scsi.cmd.checkCondition:error]: Device em2dir1:3-2.116: Check Condition: CDB 0x15: Sense Data SCSI:data protect - (0x7 - 0x27 0x0 0x0)(1). filer4>
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From: Holland, William L [mailto:HollandWL@state.gov] Sent: Friday, April 20, 2007 2:46 AM To: Ken Williams; toasters@mathworks.com Subject: RE: FAS3020 + FC LTO Gen 3. what is the output of: sysconfig -m sysconfig -t
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From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of Ken Williams Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2007 5:54 PM To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: FAS3020 + FC LTO Gen 3.
Toasters!
I have been trying for a couple weeks now to get my 3020 to properly see an LTO Gen 3 FC Tape drive.
Environment: FAS3020, attached to Cisco MDS Fabric with ISL between two MDS9509s attached to HP Ultrium 3 LTO3 Drive.
The LTO3 drive is installed in a StorageTek L700 Library which fiber channel robotic control. The backup environment is Symantec Netbackup. There is no extra HBA cards in the FAS3020, so we are using the onboard card.
The Good: I can manually load a tape, the Filer sees the drive/tape.
The Bad: The system always reports back that the tape is a LTO1 200GB read only.
Naturally I tried several other tape drives and tape media, all with the same problem. I have 2 FAS940s that do not have any issue talking to LTO3 Tape drives.
I've downloaded the latest device configuration files from now, I've been working with the technical support at netapp. My best assumption is that the drives are in the wrong block mode.
Has anyone seen anything like this?
__________________________________________________________ Ken Williams Storage Administrator, Business Technology Operations Sacramento Municipal Utility District E-Mail: kwillia@smud.org Phone: (916) 732-6744 Cell: (916) 240-4213
Dude,
You are fine.
I have IBM LTO-3's attached to my FAS980 & R200 via FCAL.
I get the same results. When Veritas runs, It will likely use nrst0a which is your "LTO-III 800GB cmp" device.
Try letting NetBackup play. It will probably work.
On 4/20/07, Ken Williams kwillia@smud.org wrote:
Here are the sysconfig outputs, and a mt status command. I'm also seeing scsi Sense Data SCSI errors as well.
filer4> sysconfig -m No medium changers present on system. -----------------------------------------[CUT]---------------------------------------------- filer4> sysconfig -t
Tape drive (em2dir1:3-2.116) HP Ultrium 3-SCSI rst0l - rewind device, format is: LTO-I rd only 200GB cmp nrst0l - no rewind device, format is: LTO-I rd only 200GB cmp urst0l - unload/reload device, format is: LTO-I rd only 200GB cmp rst0m - rewind device, format is: LTO-II 400GB cmp nrst0m - no rewind device, format is: LTO-II 400GB cmp urst0m - unload/reload device, format is: LTO-II 400GB cmp rst0h - rewind device, format is: LTO-III 400GB nrst0h - no rewind device, format is: LTO-III 400GB urst0h - unload/reload device, format is: LTO-III 400GB rst0a - rewind device, format is: LTO-III 800GB cmp nrst0a - no rewind device, format is: LTO-III 800GB cmp urst0a - unload/reload device, format is: LTO-III 800GB cmp-----------------------------------------[CUT]---------------------------------------------- filer4> mt -f nrst13a status warning: using density LTO-I rd only 200GB cmp to change density you must first rewind the tape. Tape drive: HP Ultrium 3-SCSI Status: ready, write enabled Format: LTO-I rd only 200GB cmp fileno = -1 blockno = -1 resid = 0 -----------------------------------------[CUT]---------------------------------------------- filer4> mt -f nrst0a rewind
filer4> Thu Apr 5 15:17:33 PDT [scsi.cmd.checkCondition:error]: Device em2dir1:3-2.116: Check Condition: CDB 0x15: Sense Data SCSI:data protect - (0x7 - 0x27 0x0 0x0)(1). filer4>
From: Holland, William L [mailto:HollandWL@state.gov] Sent: Friday, April 20, 2007 2:46 AM To: Ken Williams; toasters@mathworks.com Subject: RE: FAS3020 + FC LTO Gen 3.
what is the output of:
sysconfig -m sysconfig -t
From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of Ken Williams Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2007 5:54 PM To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: FAS3020 + FC LTO Gen 3.
Toasters!
I have been trying for a couple weeks now to get my 3020 to properly see an LTO Gen 3 FC Tape drive.
Environment: FAS3020, attached to Cisco MDS Fabric with ISL between two MDS9509s attached to HP Ultrium 3 LTO3 Drive.
The LTO3 drive is installed in a StorageTek L700 Library which fiber channel robotic control. The backup environment is Symantec Netbackup. There is no extra HBA cards in the FAS3020, so we are using the onboard card.
The Good: I can manually load a tape, the Filer sees the drive/tape.
The Bad: The system always reports back that the tape is a LTO1 200GB read only.
Naturally I tried several other tape drives and tape media, all with the same problem. I have 2 FAS940s that do not have any issue talking to LTO3 Tape drives.
I've downloaded the latest device configuration files from now, I've been working with the technical support at netapp. My best assumption is that the drives are in the wrong block mode.
Has anyone seen anything like this?
Ken Williams Storage Administrator, Business Technology Operations Sacramento Municipal Utility District E-Mail: kwillia@smud.org Phone: (916) 732-6744 Cell: (916) 240-4213
What output are you getting from sysconfig -t on the filer? When I run this command, I get several device paths for the tape drive, and the type and compression are listed. Then I use the highest compression no-rewind device as the "path" on the Netbackup system.
I've also set the type of drive in Netbackup to '1/2" Cartridge 3 (hcart3),' but in my experience this doesn't affect the format/compression that will get written to the drive physically.
Fred --- Ken Williams kwillia@smud.org wrote:
Toasters!
I have been trying for a couple weeks now to get my 3020 to properly see an LTO Gen 3 FC Tape drive.
Environment: FAS3020, attached to Cisco MDS Fabric with ISL between two MDS9509s attached to HP Ultrium 3 LTO3 Drive.
The LTO3 drive is installed in a StorageTek L700 Library which fiber channel robotic control. The backup environment is Symantec Netbackup. There is no extra HBA cards in the FAS3020, so we are using the onboard card.
The Good: I can manually load a tape, the Filer sees the drive/tape.
The Bad: The system always reports back that the tape is a LTO1 200GB read only.
Naturally I tried several other tape drives and tape media, all with the same problem. I have 2 FAS940s that do not have any issue talking to LTO3 Tape drives.
I've downloaded the latest device configuration files from now, I've been working with the technical support at netapp. My best assumption is that the drives are in the wrong block mode.
Has anyone seen anything like this?
__________________________________________________________
Ken Williams Storage Administrator, Business Technology Operations Sacramento Municipal Utility District E-Mail: kwillia@smud.org Phone: (916) 732-6744 Cell: (916) 240-4213
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I haven't began the netbackup side of the configuration yet. I'm just trying to get the Filer to read the drive/media as LTO3 instead of LTO1, once that problem is solved I'll move on to netbackup configuration.
I have 2 FAS940s that have LTO3 drives backing up through netbackup without a hitch.
I also re-zoned the tape drive to the "working" filers and have the same problem. This occurs with 2 separate drives, so I cant see it being a bad drive problem. I did come across a "variable block mode" solution on the NOW site. Has anyone done this or know how to set the "variable block mode"?
-----Original Message----- From: Fred Grieco [mailto:fredgrieco@yahoo.com] Sent: Friday, April 20, 2007 4:54 AM To: Ken Williams; toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Re: FAS3020 + FC LTO Gen 3.
What output are you getting from sysconfig -t on the filer? When I run this command, I get several device paths for the tape drive, and the type and compression are listed. Then I use the highest compression no-rewind device as the "path" on the Netbackup system.
I've also set the type of drive in Netbackup to '1/2" Cartridge 3 (hcart3),' but in my experience this doesn't affect the format/compression that will get written to the drive physically.
Fred --- Ken Williams kwillia@smud.org wrote:
Toasters!
I have been trying for a couple weeks now to get my 3020 to properly see an LTO Gen 3 FC Tape drive.
Environment: FAS3020, attached to Cisco MDS Fabric with ISL between two MDS9509s attached to HP Ultrium 3 LTO3 Drive.
The LTO3 drive is installed in a StorageTek L700 Library which fiber channel robotic control. The backup environment is Symantec Netbackup. There is no extra HBA cards in the FAS3020, so we are using the onboard card.
The Good: I can manually load a tape, the Filer sees the drive/tape.
The Bad: The system always reports back that the tape is a LTO1 200GB read only.
Naturally I tried several other tape drives and tape media, all with the same problem. I have 2 FAS940s that do not have any issue talking to LTO3 Tape drives.
I've downloaded the latest device configuration files from now, I've been working with the technical support at netapp. My best assumption is that the drives are in the wrong block mode.
Has anyone seen anything like this?
__________________________________________________________
Ken Williams Storage Administrator, Business Technology Operations Sacramento Municipal Utility District E-Mail: kwillia@smud.org Phone: (916) 732-6744 Cell: (916) 240-4213
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