Now that I can see my libraries, I can not use them (see SUMMARY:Tape
configuration problems).
I suspect that the problems I am having is still a configuration issue. I
can not write
to ether of the tape drives without getting an I/O error, [5] using vdump
and tar.
I used MAKEDEV tz24 tz26 to create the *rmt* files which allowed me to
access the tapes
(see tape movement). What's strange is when I do a "file /dev/rmt0h or
/dev/rmt1h", I
get the following.
# file /dev/rmt0h  
/dev/rmt0h:     character special (9/49154) SCSI #3 EXB-8505 tape #35 (SCSI
ID #0) (SCSI LUN #0) errors = 0/3254 61000_bpi  
# file /dev/rmt1h 
/dev/rmt1h:     character special (9/51202) SCSI #3 EXB-8505 tape #37 (SCSI
ID #2) (SCSI LUN #0) errors = 0/6511 61000_bpi  
Notice the Tape #'s. Shouldn't they be 24 and 26? Also, below is what I get
when I try to
get a status of one of the tape drives.
Thanks,
Calvin
# mt -f /dev/nrmt1h status 
DEVIOGET ELEMENT	CONTENTS
----------------	--------
category		DEV_TAPE
bus			DEV_SCSI
interface		SCSI
device			EXB-8505
adpt_num		0
nexus_num		0
bus_num			3
ctlr_num		3
slave_num		37
dev_name		tz
unit_num		37
soft_count		0
hard_count		6511
stat			0x1
                        DEV_BOM 
category_stat		0x20000
                        DEV_61000_BPI
DEVGETINFO ELEMENT      CONTENTS
------------------      --------
media_status            0x10001
                        BOM POS_VALID 
unit_status             0x101
                        Ready 2_FM_Close NO_Rewind Buffered 
record_size             0
density (current)       61000 BPI
density (on write)      0 BPI
Filemark Cnt            0
Record Cnt              0
Class                   2 - RDAT
MTIOCGET ELEMENT	CONTENTS
----------------	--------
mt_type			MT_ISSCSI
mt_dsreg		0x1
                        DEV_BOM 
mt_erreg		0x43 Nonrecoverable medium error.
                        EOM 
mt_resid		0
mt_fileno		0 
mt_blkno		0 
DEV_EEI_STATUS
        version		0x2
        status		0x3400  Device hardware error (hard error)   
        flags		0x1000007
                        CAM_STATUS SCSI_STATUS SCSI_SENSE CAM_DATA
        cam_status	0x4  CCB request completed with an err
        scsi_status	0x2  SCSI_STAT_CHECK_CONDITION
        scsi_sense_data	(hex)
                        70  0 43  0  0  0  1 15 
                         0  0  0  0  9  0  0  0 
                         0  0  0  1  0  0  0 69 
                        6f 90  3  0 ae  0  0  0 
                         0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0 
                         0  0  0  0  0  0 
        ASC/ASQ = 9/0	Track following error
////// //////  Calvin J. Meadows Jr. 
//     //       UNIX/VMS Systems Administrator
//     //        Smith College
////// //         Northampton, MA 01063
    // //          E-Mail: cmeadows_at_smith.edu
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Received on Fri Dec 18 1998 - 18:46:08 NZDT