Thanks to Alan for trying to help. The problem was the there were several
new but bad Exabyte 8MM tapes. Just my luck to come across bad tapes in
both libraries.
Thanks to all.
At 01:44 PM 12/18/98 , you wrote:
>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
>
>
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Received on Mon Dec 21 1998 - 14:11:04 NZDT