PBS and iSCSI Tape drive

[Nicolas Durand]

Hi,
I am trying to configure an iSCSI bridge to a tape drive (ATTO XstreamCore 8100T) on my PBS 4.2.1.

My tape is seen by the PBS:

lsscsi -g

[0:2:0:0]    disk    DELL     PERC H730P Mini  4.27  /dev/sda   /dev/sg0

[12:0:0:0]   tape    IBM      ULTRIUM-HH8      S2T1  /dev/st0   /dev/sg1

The LTO drive has been successfully added in the PBS GUI.
However, it seems that the PBS is unable to see the tape loaded in the LTO drive.
The Linux mt commands works, but the PBS doesn't.

Any idea ?

 

[dcsapak]

However, it seems that the PBS is unable to see the tape loaded in the LTO drive.
The Linux mt commands works, but the PBS doesn't.

what is the output of the pbs commands?

what is the output of

proxmox-tape status --drive <drive>

?

 

[Nicolas Durand]

The problem is:

root@pbs:/# proxmox-tape drive list

┌──────┬────────────────────────────────────┬─────────┬────────┬───────┬────────┐
│ name │ path                               │ changer │ vendor │ model │ serial │
╞══════╪════════════════════════════════════╪═════════╪════════╪═══════╪════════╡
│ LTO  │ /dev/tape/by-id/scsi-AB9076808D-sg │         │        │       │        │
└──────┴────────────────────────────────────┴─────────┴────────┴───────┴────────┘

root@pbs:/# proxmox-tape status --drive LTO

Error: No such file or directory (os error 2)

root@pbs:/#

 

[dcsapak]

it seems pbs is not seeing the drive at all?

can you post the output of 'dmesg' or 'journalctl -b' ?

 

[Nicolas Durand]

Here is the output of dmesg

 

[dcsapak]

can you send the journal too? and are you sure this is the right host? i can't see any tape drive at all in the log (or of IBM/Ultrium) ?

 

[Nicolas Durand]

Here is the journal.

 

[Nicolas Durand]

After a reboot, I can see my LTO drive, by still cannot use it:

proxmox-tape drive list
┌──────┬────────────────────────────────────┬─────────┬────────┬─────────────┬────────────┐
│ name │ path                               │ changer │ vendor │ model       │ serial     │
╞══════╪════════════════════════════════════╪═════════╪════════╪═════════════╪════════════╡
│ LTO  │ /dev/tape/by-id/scsi-AB9076808D-sg │         │ IBM    │ ULTRIUM-HH8 │ AB9076808D │
└──────┴────────────────────────────────────┴─────────┴────────┴─────────────┴────────────┘
root@pbs:~# proxmox-tape status --drive LTO
┌─────────────┬─────────────────────┐
│ Name        │ Value               │
╞═════════════╪═════════════════════╡
│ blocksize   │ 0                   │
├─────────────┼─────────────────────┤
│ density     │ LTO8                │
├─────────────┼─────────────────────┤
│ compression │ 1                   │
├─────────────┼─────────────────────┤
│ buffer-mode │ 1                   │
├─────────────┼─────────────────────┤
│ alert-flags │ TapeAlertFlags(0x0) │
└─────────────┴─────────────────────┘