Problem booting RP5470 Ignite tape on RP 7400 & RP5450

[Sean McConkey_5]

Hi

Got an Ignite tape that was created on a 5470 and when I attempt to recover onto either of the above types of systems it get the following error. I thought it may have been bacuse of old GSP & PDC firmware but now these are all upto date I still get the same error.

It looks to me like it can't recognise the CPU's although another tape created on an almost identical RP5470 works fine.

Any ideas?


************* SYSTEM ALERT **************
SYSTEM NAME: qs-hp06
DATE: 12/10/2009 TIME: 07:39:44
ALERT LEVEL: 12 = Software failure

REASON FOR ALERT
SOURCE: 1 = processor
SOURCE DETAIL: 1 = processor general SOURCE ID: 0
PROBLEM DETAIL: 0 = no problem detail

LEDs: RUN ATTENTION FAULT REMOTE POWER
FLASH FLASH FLASH ON ON
LED State: Unexpected Reboot. Running non-OS code. Non-critical error detected.
Check Chassis and Console Logs for error messages.

0xF8E010C01100B900 00000000 0000B900 - type 31 = legacy PA HEX chassis-code
0x58E018C01100B900 00006D0B 0A07272C - type 11 = Timestamp 12/10/2009 07:39:44
A: ack read of this entry - X: Disable all future alert messages
Anything else skip redisplay the log entry
->Choice:Timeout!
*****************************************

************* SYSTEM ALERT **************
SYSTEM NAME: qs-hp06
DATE: 12/10/2009 TIME: 07:39:44
ALERT LEVEL: 12 = Software failure

REASON FOR ALERT
SOURCE: 1 = processor
SOURCE DETAIL: 1 = processor general SOURCE ID: 0
PROBLEM DETAIL: 0 = no problem detail

LEDs: RUN ATTENTION FAULT REMOTE POWER
FLASH FLASH FLASH ON ON
LED State: Unexpected Reboot. Running non-OS code. Non-critical error detected.
Check Chassis and Console Logs for error messages.

0xA0E010C01100B000 00000000 000005E9 - type 20 = major change in system state
0x58E018C01100B000 00006D0B 0A07272C - type 11 = Timestamp 12/10/2009 07:39:44
A: ack read of this entry - X: Disable all future alert messages
Anything else skip redisplay the log entry

[Sean McConkey_5]

I'm beginning to suspect there may be a problem with the Ignite tape as I've attempted to extract the archive using pax & tar.

I get 2 different errors although they occur about the same time on reading the tape.

If I use tar I get a couple "directory checksum error" then the after a short wait drops back to the prompt.

With pax I get the following errors;

pax: /dev/rmt/2m : This doesn't look like a tar archive
pax: /dev/rmt/2m : Skipping to next file...

Both these messages get repeated twice before it jumps back to the prompt. I'm looking to see if the tape can get recreated on a new drive and test that.

[Patrick Wallek]

When trying to extract the tape contents with pax/tar are you skipping over the boot section of the tape first?

Rewind the tape
# mt -f /dev/rmt/?mn rew

Skip the boot section of the tape
# mt -f /dev/rmt/?mn fsf 1

Now run pax/tar to extract the tape
# tar -tvf /dev/rmt/?mn

As to the errors you are receiving above, I suppose they could be related since they only seem to occur with this tape.

Have you tried recreating the tape on the rp5470 with a different/new tape?