DL380/G2 Hot plug 72G DAT tape drive not working on

[Mogens Kjaer]

Armbruster, David wrote:
...
> Mogens - Its a hot plug SCSI drive connected to the 5i RAID Controller. I 
> used a little script to engage the scsi once booted but it complains of I/O 
> errors and offlines the drive. I can pull a status off the drive with mt,
> but any attempt to write to the drive and its gone until the next boot time.
> Very strange......
> 

I assume that it is a script like:

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?admit=716493758+1107524368927+28353475&threadId=717816

What gets logged in /var/log/messages when this is run?

You're running with the cciss driver? You might want to check
the mailing list at
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum=cciss-discuss
to see if there's any help.

Mogens
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