[CentOS] SCSI schizophrenia

Fri Oct 21 13:49:54 UTC 2005
Aleksandar Milivojevic <alex at milivojevic.org>

Quoting Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com>:

> OK - I only have one tape drive but a real problem these days backing
> up. I ***may*** have connected the SCSI connector to the 'other'
> external connector when shifting stuff around in the rack.
>
> # cat /proc/scsi/scsi
> Attached devices:

> Host: scsi0 Channel: 05 Id: 06 Lun: 00
>  Vendor: SEAGATE  Model: ULTRIUM06242-XXX Rev: 1514
>  Type:   Sequential-Access                ANSI SCSI revision: 03
> Host: scsi0 Channel: 05 Id: 06 Lun: 01
>  Vendor: SEAGATE  Model: ULTRIUM06242-XXX Rev: 1514
>  Type:   Sequential-Access                ANSI SCSI revision: 03
>
> How do I get it 're-parse' the scsi system so it only indicates one
> ULTRIUM tape drive? Me suspects this is why I am having backup issues.

Hm, reboot?  ;-)

However, it might not help.  Some hardware likes to be seen on more than one
LUN.  I used to have one ancient 8mm Exabyte tape drive that would report it
has about 8 LUNs.  Go figure.

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