Dear Managers
The original request is at the bottom of this email. Thanks to everybody who responded to this question:
Stephen Lowe
David Wigg
Regine Polnick
Knut Hellebų
Philip Ordinario
Steve Butcher
G.J.Hilbrands
John Becker
Bryan Lavelle
Darryl Cook
Richard Loken
Annette Lee
Wendy Fong
Dr. Tom Blinn
Oisin McGuinness
Alan Nabeth
Simon Millard
The responses were basically composed of two phases: first, find out the name of the device that needs to be created for my tape; the options were: watch the boot sequence for a "tzxx" device name or work out the number of the device from the SCSI configuration (xx=8*busnb+tgid) the suggestion was made to run:
# sizer -n DEVICES
(here, I am quoting Dr. Blinn):
The file created by the "sizer" command will contain a MAKEDEV command
that will create all the device files for the current configuration.
It should include the appropriate tape device files. Or, you can "cat"
the /tmp/DEVICES.devs file and look for the "tz" device names and then
do the MAKEDEV manually.
(End of quote)
The second part is already mentioned in the quote above: run the MAKEDEV command, either from the DEVICES.devs file or manually to create the device names. For example:
# cd /dev
# ( PATH=$PATH:/dev ; . /tmp/DEVICES.devs )
Once again, the two code lines were quoted from Dr. Blinn's response.
I hope I made honor to the responses I got,
Carlos
----- Original Message -----
From: Carlos Martinez
To: Tru64 Managers List
Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2000 7:24 AM
Subject: Recognizing the tape drive when booting off of 4.0F CD-ROM
Dear Managers,
I am currently trying to recover my root disk from a backup tape. I intend to use vrestore (all the filesystems are AdvFS). The method I am using is:
1. Boot off of the 4.0F CD-ROM,
2. Partition my target disk and define the file system type and swap partitions exactly as they were in my original root disk,
3. Mount the different partitions on /var.
At this point I encounter the following problem: the tape drive is not recognized by the system. I have attempted booting off of genvmunix on the CD-ROM, but this has made no difference; the device files for the tape are simply not available.
Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Carlos Martinez-Mascarua
ALSTOM ESCA
Received on Wed Jun 28 2000 - 01:13:58 NZST