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- From: nanook@eskimo.com (Robert Dinse)
- Subject: Tape Drive Lock-Up
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.214758.5393@eskimo.com>
- Keywords: Tape Locks - Help!
- Organization: -> ESKIMO NORTH (206) For-Ever <-
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 21:47:58 GMT
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- This question pertains to a Sun 3/280 running Sun/OS 4.1.1_U1 and using
- a 9-track 6250 bpi tape drive.
-
- When I use dump to write a disk partition to tape, occasionally I will
- get the following sequence of errors:
-
- xt0: timeout interrupt
- xtintr: XTE_TIMEOUT reset failed, err= 0x9
- xt0: hard error bn=0 er=0x40
- xtwrt_eom:failed in writing EOM 1.
-
- Once this happens the drive is hung. Nothing short of a reboot seems to
- be able to clear it. Everything I try comes back device busy. If I try:
-
- mt offline
-
- It comes back and says device busy. Powering the drive off and on
- doesn't fix it either. Once it's hosed, tar, cpio, anything else will say
- device busy. However the initial error that gets it in this state only
- occurs when using dump.
-
- I have had similiar problems using dump with 8mm 5GB drive on a 4/670
- (external) and SUN/OS 4.1.3, but power cycling the drive without taking the
- entire server down seems to fix it.
-
- Anybody got any idea what's wrong? Is there a fixed version of dump
- available that won't hang the drive?
-
-