[CentOS] CentOS 6.6: Lost connection to tape library

Wed Oct 29 09:47:48 UTC 2014
Dominic Geevarghese <share2dom at gmail.com>

Hi,

On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 1:07 PM, Mogens Kjaer <mk at lemo.dk> wrote:

> On 10/29/2014 08:07 AM, Dominic Geevarghese wrote:
>
>> ok. I think, it would be really great if you could share the output of
>>
>> # lspci -vn | egrep '05:00.0|0b:00.0'
>>
>
> Booted on the old kernel:
>
> 05:00.0 0104: 103c:323a (rev 01)
> 0b:00.0 0104: 103c:323a (rev 01)


Ok, it seems the kernel 2.6.32-504.el6.centos.plus supports the above said
hardware and driver hpsa is included in the kernel.

filename:
/lib/modules/2.6.32-504.el6.centos.plus.x86_64/kernel/drivers/scsi/hpsa.ko
license:        GPL
version:        3.4.4-1-RH2
description:    Driver for HP Smart Array Controller version 3.4.4-1-RH2
author:         Hewlett-Packard Company
srcversion:     ADF4B03767C43E41961C9AA

Even I have installed the kmod-hpsa and checked the driver version.  Per
latest kmod-hpsa-3.4.4_1_RH1-1.el6_5.x86_64  available,
the driver version is one lower than module shipped in
2.6.32-504.el6.centos.plus kernel and changelog of kmod doesn't show
anything
relevant to your issue.

filename:       /lib/modules/2.6.32-431.20.3.el6.x86_64/extra/hpsa/hpsa.ko
license:        GPL
version:        3.4.4-1-RH1
description:    Driver for HP Smart Array Controller version 3.4.4-1-RH1
author:         Hewlett-Packard Company
srcversion:     4B558C7818157360E7C4D89

Based on the data extracted, I would say,

* The issue you have encountered is not due to missing driver support.
* Enabling scsi logging would be the next step to figure it out the reason
why tape is not functioning in latest kernel.

@list, please shoot if any other suggestions .

Cheers,