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From: "pepone.onrez" <pepone.onrez@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Amanda problems creating backup to external usb disk
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 20:54:11
Message-Id: 198501d60711301248m179e3b64x8f11b4650e381226@mail.gmail.com
1 I get this error when check the status of my virtual tape.
2
3 amanda@zeus ~ $ /usr/sbin/ammt -f /backup/vtapes/ydra/slots status
4 /backup/vtapes/ydra/slots status failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
5
6 My vtape partition is in is own partition as rerpoted by mount
7 /dev/sdc1 on /backup/vtapes/ydra type jfs (rw)
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9
10 And here is dmesg relative ouput for the usb diks and usb-storage
11
12 Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
13 scsi4 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
14 usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
15 USB Mass Storage support registered.
16 usb-storage: device found at 2
17 usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
18
19 scsi 4:0:0:0: Direct-Access ST350063 0A 3.AA PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
20 sd 4:0:0:0: [sdc] 976773168 512-byte hardware sectors (500108 MB)
21 sd 4:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off
22 sd 4:0:0:0: [sdc] Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
23 sd 4:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through
24 sd 4:0:0:0: [sdc] 976773168 512-byte hardware sectors (500108 MB)
25 sd 4:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off
26 sd 4:0:0:0: [sdc] Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
27 sd 4:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through
28 sdc: sdc1 sdc2 sdc3
29 sd 4:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI disk
30 sd 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
31 usb-storage: device scan complete
32
33
34 I read about a similar error in this post
35 http://forums.zmanda.com/showthread.php?t=462&highlight=ioctl
36
37 A guy solve a similar problem on debian passing this option to configure
38 "--with-maxtapeblocksize=64"
39
40 I go to test this on gentoo an report if this works on gentoo .

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