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- Subject: RE: RMTALLOC leads to MOUNT-F-UNSAFE, drive unsafe
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- From: busma@TGV.COM
- Date: 09 NOV 92 18:42:23 GMT
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- >I am attempting to access, via rmt, a 9 track tape drive on a remote
- >ibm RS6000/320H. I have set up an appropriate entry in the remote
- >machines .rhost file. The rmtalloc command seems to work properly,
- >but when I do a "Mount/foreign", I always get
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- > %MOUNT-F-UNSAFE, drive unsafe
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- >message. This is the result whether I invoke the low density or
- >the high density device (the tape is almost assuredly low density)
- >and whether I access the "retension on open" option or not. Any
- >suggestions?
- >
- The experience we've had with RS6000s has not been posititve.
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- The vax asks the RS6000 to rewind the tape and the RS6000
- reports an error. The vax figures that if it can't rewind the tape
- it won't be able to read or write the tape. Note the error
- reported was change to :
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- %MOUNT-F-CTRLERR, fatal controller error
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- in Rev-B or later)
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- Try this:
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- $ RSHELL hostname "/etc/rmt"
- I5
- 1
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- If you get an error ("E5 There is an input or output error"), give IBM a
- call and ask them why rewinding the tape causes this error. I'll be
- happy be part of that call if you want to arrange that.
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- If you don't get an error rewinding, then your tape drive has different
- behavior than I've seen. Please give me a call , I'd like to have access
- to your tape drive and run some tests.
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- Jeff Busma
- 408.427.4366
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