Olaf,

What kind of tape devices are these?  For any type of DLT7000/8000 I didn't
think CDI was supported by the drives very well.   For our LTO1 and LTO2 we
turn it off.

I've never seen it break the block size though on Solaris.

Robert Maiello
Pioneer Data Systems


On Wed, 4 Jan 2006 16:32:44 +0100, Olaf Zaplinski 
<o.zaplinski AT BROADNET DOT DE> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>whenever I enable CDI, I cannot mount my tapes any longer. Any ideas? With
>CDI disabled, everything works well. Server is NW 7.1.4 / Redhat EL 3
>
>
>In /var/log/messages, I see:
>
>Jan  4 16:16:28 r2d2 kernel: st0: Block limits 1 - 16777215 bytes.
>Jan  4 16:16:39 r2d2 kernel: st0: Incorrect block size.
>Jan  4 16:16:39 r2d2 logger: NetWorker media: (warning) TapeAlert flag
>"Diagnostics required" has been posted for /dev/nst0
>Jan  4 16:16:52 r2d2 kernel: st0: Incorrect block size.
>Jan  4 16:16:52 r2d2 logger: NetWorker media: (warning) /dev/nst0 reading:
>Success
>Jan  4 16:17:04 r2d2 kernel: st0: Incorrect block size.
>Jan  4 16:17:05 r2d2 logger: NetWorker media: (warning) /dev/nst0 reading:
>no tape label found
>
>
>/nsr/logs/daemon.log:
>
>01/04/06 16:16:17 nsrd: /dev/nst0 Verify label operation in progress
>01/04/06 16:16:39 nsrd: media warning: TapeAlert flag "Diagnostics 
required"
>has been posted for /dev/nst0
>01/04/06 16:16:52 nsrd: media warning: /dev/nst0 reading: Success
>01/04/06 16:17:05 nsrd: media warning: /dev/nst0 reading: no tape label 
found
>01/04/06 16:17:05 nsrd: /dev/nst0 Eject operation in progress
>01/04/06 16:17:37 nsrd: Jukebox 'L700e' failed: expected volume '000166' 
got
>'NULL'.
>
>
>Olaf
>
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