A Sysadmins blog » backups http://paul.messinthecorner.com I once was 404, but now am 200. Fri, 23 Oct 2009 09:33:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Re-scan the scsi bus after detecting a missing media changer for the tape drive http://paul.messinthecorner.com/2009/re-scan-the-scsi-bus-after-detecting-a-missing-media-changer-for-the-tape-drive/ http://paul.messinthecorner.com/2009/re-scan-the-scsi-bus-after-detecting-a-missing-media-changer-for-the-tape-drive/#comments Fri, 23 Oct 2009 09:12:30 +0000 pdeaudney http://paul.messinthecorner.com/?p=43 Well today ran into a nice problem, the media changer on a Dell 124T had disappeared and the backup server had been neglected for a while. So Amanda was spewing out backup failed reports for a while now. A bit of investigation later found that the media changer had “gone”. More poking showed the tape drive still present hmm.

As this media changer and server live in another state (1200km away) and it was Friday night, the chances of getting the tape drive power cycled == 0. Luckily a rescan of the correct SCSI bus resulted in the media changer being found and usable again.

For reference, check out your SCSI devices by running:

cat /proc/scsi/scsi

In my case the host bus I wanted to re-scan was 1. So running this command tells the controller to rescan all channels, IDs & LUNs..

echo "- - - " > /sys/class/scsi_host/host1/scan

After this, I was able to interact with the tape changer device via the Amanda tools again.

Note: Always be-careful when running commands that hot add/remove SCSI devices. I have seen some servers crash from this and others lose access to all SCSI devices which required a reboot to fix (Mostly it is okay though).

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