Recover fails

[Rui Vilao]

Hi all,

Yesterday I have created a bootable tape with:

make_recovery -AvCi -t "

[Pedro Sousa]

Ol? Rui!
Maybe you need to check/replace the SCSI terminator on the boot device.
boa sorte.

[Vincenzo Restuccia]

verify the tape:
#mt -t fsr 1
#tar tv

[boley janowski]

i agree with the terminator, but i have noticed that my scsi cables are going bad alot more often than the terminators, if you continue to have this problem, pull all external devices off of that bus except the tape drive if that is external and terminate it.

good luck

[Eileen Millen]

I would check the tape with
mt -t /dev/rmt/0mn fsf 1
tar -tvf /dev/rmt/0m
to list contents of the tape

You should use 0mn for the tape device
thats no rewind
make_recovery writes a LIF are onto tape 1st
and then does the archive.
I had a problem with a tape when I did not use 0mn. I could not read file back with tar either.
Eileen

[Rui Vilao]

Obrigado pela sugest?o Pedro!

Pedro, Vicenzo, Boley and Eileen,
Thanks for your contribution.

I checked the SCSI terminator and the tape passed successfully all tests.

I believe my -d option was wrong:
should use /dev/rmt/0mn ant /dev/rmt/om!

Kind Regards,

Rui.