I received few helpful responses, one particular from Alan Rollow,
triggered me to revisit my newly installed components KZPAA controller
and DLT TZ87N unit. I started with the easy one and replaced the DLT
tape drive and that fixed the problem. Another one of those "very
misleading" error message.
My sincere Thanks to:
"Robert L. McMillin" <rlm_at_syseca-us.com>
<alan_at_nabeth.cxo.dec.com (Alan Rollow - Dr. File System's Home for
Wayward Inodes.)>
Joshua Tolle <jstolle_at_rocketmail.com>
jason andrade <jason_at_dstc.edu.au>
Ana Pedraz <Ana.Pedraz_at_Digital.com>
Ronny Eliahu
The Walt Disney Company
Disney WorldWide Services
Disney Studio, Burbank California
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Subject: vdump [5] I/O error
Author: <ronny_eliahu_at_corp.disney.com> at CORP-INTERNET-BURBANK
Date: 3/6/98 4:09 PM
DUNIX Managers,
I recently added a tape drive (DLT TZ87N) to a 2100a, running Digital
UNIX 4.0D. I am using advfs, tape does respond to rewind, status.. but
when I vdump I get:
vdump: unable to write to device </dev/rmt0h>; [5] I/O error vdump:
Any ideas? appreciate your help and input in this matter.
Thanks in advance.
Ronny Eliahu
The Walt Disney Company
Disney WorldWide Services
Disney Studio, Burbank California
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Here's the cut'n paste:
# mt -t /dev/nrmt0h rew
# vdump -0f /dev/rmt0h /
path : /
dev/fset : root_domain#root
type : advfs
advfs id : 0x34eb41fb.000bcdc0.1
vdump: Date of last level 0 dump: the start of the epoch vdump:
Dumping directories
vdump: unable to write to device </dev/rmt0h>; [5] I/O error vdump:
do you want to retry? vdump: Dumping 80225692 bytes, 174 directories,
2239 files
vdump: Dumping regular files
(at this point the system did not respond for three minutes I hit the
return key and replied accordingly.)
vdump: do you want to retry? y
(again, at this point the system hung, I hit hit the return key again
to get the system to respond)
vdump: unable to write to device </dev/rmt0h>; [5] I/O error vdump: do
you want to retry? y
vdump: Write EOF on tape 0001 failed; [5] I/O error vdump: Rewinding
and unloading tape
vdump: Status at Fri Mar 6 14:40:53 1998
vdump: Dumped 80225692 of 80225692 bytes; 100.0% completed vdump:
Dumped 174 of 174 directories; 100.0% completed vdump: Dumped 2239
of 2239 files; 100.0% completed
vdump: Dump completed at Fri Mar 6 14:40:53 1998 #
#
I figured I try to see if anything actually dumped but, as you can see
by the response.... I got an error.
#
#
# vrestore -ivf /dev/nrmt0h
vrestore: unable to open save-set </dev/nrmt0h>; [5] I/O error #
Received on Mon Mar 09 1998 - 20:55:45 NZDT