Transport error

[Iago77]

Hello,

from two days ago I am receving some transport errors in /dev/rmt/1 and /dev/rmt/3:

# iostat -en | egrep '/1|/3'
7 4 114 125 rmt/3
3 10 214 227 rmt/1

Cause we have not rebooted the machine yet, these hard errors (2nd column) are not updated (counters reset on each boot).

Media Library is a L700 from STK, tape drive type is Ultrium-LTO2 and the backup software is Legato 7.2.1 (installed on a Solaris box).

We have a problem related to Legato because the Networker displays "Veryfing Label". The tape is not loaded and you have to execute:

# /etc/init.d/networker stop
# /etc/init.d/networker start
# nsrjb -HHEv

to get the tape drive freed.

Is it a problem with the tape drive or a tape? I have tried loading and writing another tape without any problem.

Many thanks in advance for your valuable help.

 

[Rif123]

If there are no tape loaded during verify lable, I would assume that there are no problem with the tapes. Was the nsrjb command to get NetWorker in sync or why was that needed? Do you have to restart/reset every time you try to mount a tape in any of those devices?

 

[Iago77]

Finally there was a error in the cfgadm output, the resource was unavaliable.

So finally, after:

cfgadm -v -f -c unconfigure <Ap_Name>

and

cfgadm -v -f -c configure <Ap_Name>

it worked out!

Nevertheless, maybe a patch revision will be needed...