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- From: dlewis@fnma.com
- Subject: Re: HELP: Dump problem with HP 35480A DAT Streamer
- Message-ID: <1993Jan10.165346.1301@almserv.uucp>
- Sender: usenet@almserv.uucp
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- Reply-To: dlewis@fnma.com
- Organization: Fannie Mae
- References: <1993Jan8.100905.601@marcon.ka.sub.org>
- Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 16:53:46 GMT
- Lines: 48
-
- In article <1993Jan8.100905.601@marcon.ka.sub.org>
- emarinos@marcon.ka.sub.org (Evstathios Marinos) writes:
- > Hi,
- >
- > I've got problems with the DAT Streamer HP 35480A running at NeXT
- machines when
- > working with dump/restore.
- >
- > Dumping files to the streamer workes fine, but performing a restore from
- a dump
- > produces a strange behaviour. Some times it works fine, the next time I
- get
- > following error:
- >
- > ST:CMD=0x8 SR_IO_STATUS=2H
- > Sense Key=0x0
- > Sense Code=0x0
- > Tape/Disk Read Error: I/O Error
- >
- > I tried the streamer with various NeXT machines, Cube's, Mono's, Turbo
- Color's
- > and I always got the same problems with restore. When using tar to write
- and
- > read to the streamer no errors ocured.
- >
- > Doe's anybody know this problem and how to solve it?
- >
- > Thank you very much for your help.
- > --
- > Stati Marinos | Phone : +49 721 37 71 78
- > Gartenstr. 2 | Fax : +49 721 37 71 79
- > 7500 Karlsruhe 1 (GERMANY) | E-Mail: emarinos@marcon.ka.sub.org
- > Registered NeXTDeveloper | - NeXTMail welcome -
-
- I've had this problem with HP DAT drives too. I've found that you can
- sometimes "reset" the SCSI for the tape by executing "restore i" before
- using "restore if /dev/nrst0". This causes an attempted access to the (on
- my machine) non-existent Exabyte interface, and seems to be equivalent to
- applying a "swift kick" to the machine. I've discovered that applying this
- procedure once after rebooting the machine seems to fix things till the
- next time the machine is rebooted. Give it a try.
-
- DL
- ---
- David Lewis
- Senior Software Engineer
- On contract to: Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae)
- dlewis@fnma.com (NeXTmail OK), 202-752-4785
-