Hi
i have two TLZ09 attached to two dec alpha 200 4/166 running DU4.0B (soon
to be 4.0d or e) and i need some verification on the various
switch/jumper settings.
i want the drive to run in media recognition mode, with compression - ie i
need it to recognize my dds-1 and dds-2 dats and put my 4gb of dense
scientific data on one backup tape.
the reason i wonder about my settings is because since we have exchanged
our drives under our dec service warranty they don't seem to want to write
to our old backup (dump) tapes. they give an I/O error as included below.
would the tlz09 write to a dds-2 tape previously written by a drive in a
different mode?
below is the dump failure as well as the settings for the tlz09 as i
understand them. any help would be greatly appreciated!
thanks!
ciao
claudia
dump error:
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dump: Dumping from host lambda.la.asu.edu
dump: Date of this level 0 dump: Sat Oct 24 22:21:33 1998 MST
dump: Date of last level dump: the start of the epoch
dump: Dumping /dev/rrz1h (/lambda1) to /dev/rmt0h
dump: Mapping (Pass I) [regular files]
dump: Mapping (Pass II) [directories]
dump: Estimate: 3353727 tape blocks on 1 volume(s)
dump: Dumping (Pass III) [directories]
dump: Volume 1, tape # 0001, begins with blocks from i-node 2
dump: 0.01% done -- finished in 03:43
dump: Dumping (Pass IV) [regular files]
dump: Check if tape is write protected.
dump: Write error -- wanted to write: 10240, only wrote: -1
slave_work(): write(): I/O error
dump: Write error - /dev/rmt0h, volume 1, 50260 blocks -- cannot recover
dump: NEEDS ATTENTION: Do you want to restart this volume?: ("yes" or
"no") n
dump: "yes" or "no"?
dump: NEEDS ATTENTION: Do you want to restart this volume?: ("yes" or
"no") n
dump: "yes" or "no"?
dump: NEEDS ATTENTION: Do you want to restart this volume?: ("yes" or
"no") no
dump: SIGTERM received
dump: The ENTIRE dump is aborted
claudia> mt offline
/dev/nrmt0h offline 1 failed: I/O error
on the tlz09:
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the jumpers are listed as:
1 3 5 7 9 11 13 15
X X
2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16
Note: X=jumpered
where 1-6 are scsi id
7/8 data compression enabled - with no jumper
9/10 parity enabled - with jumper
11/12 reserved (?) - sent with no jumper
13/14 termination disabled - with no jumper
15/16 terminator power enabled - with jumper
i believe i want
numb y/n why
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7/8 n compression enabled
9/10 ?? ????????
11/12 ?? ??
13/14 n ??
15/16 ?? ??
on the bottom of the disk are some more switches called drive switch
settings. they are labeled as:
on on on on
1 2 3 4
off off off off
they are listed as:
1: drive mode - switch defaults to off for tlz09 mode
2: media rec. - defaults to off for NO mrs
3: self test - off to enable diagnostics self test at power up
4: reserved - in off position
i think i want
1 - off for tlz09
2 - on for mrs
3 - off to enable diagnostics
4 - off
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* Claudia-Angelica Teresa Chiarenza Burg *
* aka Gigi *
* Claudia *
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* Working on: a PhD in Physics and Astronomy *
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Received on Sun Oct 25 1998 - 05:57:21 NZDT