make_tape_recovery

[tayal_sumit]

Hi All,
I have HP-UX server rp8420 first i have attached an external Ultrium-111 drive to server then its working fine now i have removed that ULT and attached an IBM ULT-111 to the server and when i am running make_tape_recovery it's taking the old ULT path and providing error completed unsuccessfully. So, please help me to sort out this problem.


regards,

[Bill Hassell]

Please post the errors. If you changed tape drives, were both tape drives set to the same address? Does the new IBM drive work at all?

[tayal_sumit]

Hi,

here i am sending the ioscan and make_tape_recovery output

Class I H/W Path Driver S/W State H/W Type Description
=======================================================================
tape 7 3/0/6/1/0.2.0 stape NO_HW DEVICE HP Ultrium 3-SCSI
/dev/rmt/7m /dev/rmt/7mnb /dev/rmt/c4t2d0BESTn
/dev/rmt/7mb /dev/rmt/c4t2d0BEST /dev/rmt/c4t2d0BESTnb
/dev/rmt/7mn /dev/rmt/c4t2d0BESTb
tape 8 3/0/6/1/0.6.0 stape CLAIMED DEVICE IBM ULT3580-TD3
/dev/rmt/8m /dev/rmt/8mnb /dev/rmt/c4t6d0BESTn
/dev/rmt/8mb /dev/rmt/c4t6d0BEST /dev/rmt/c4t6d0BESTnb
/dev/rmt/8mn /dev/rmt/c4t6d0BESTb


this is make_tape_recovery output


* Checking Versions of Ignite-UX filesets
ERROR: Failed to open tape device /dev/rmt/c4t2d0BESTn:No such device or
address (errno = 6).
ERROR: Check tape device failed.

======= 03/01/08 07:33:37 IST make_tape_recovery completed unsuccessfully

[VK2COT]

Hello,

Huh, there is a significant problem:

tape 7 3/0/6/1/0.2.0 stape NO_HW DEVICE HP Ultrium 3-SCSI
/dev/rmt/7m /dev/rmt/7mnb /dev/rmt/c4t2d0BESTn
/dev/rmt/7mb /dev/rmt/c4t2d0BEST /dev/rmt/c4t2d0BESTnb
/dev/rmt/7mn /dev/rmt/c4t2d0BESTb

Pay attention to "NO_HW" flag!

It is obvious that you have one of the following problems:

a) Faulty tape drive;

b) Faulty SCSI cable;

c) Faulty SCSI card;

Once you resolve it, you can use
this specific tape drive.

or, use the other Ultrium drive.
That one is available.

Regards,

VK2COT

[TTr]

Your old tape drive was SCSI ID 2 and your ignite command tried to use that device, that's why the error. Your new tape drive is SCSI ID 6. Did ignite use the new tape drive? It says it completed successfully.

The only way to get rid of the first tape drive, which does not exist (NO_HW), is to reboot the server.

You can specify which device to use in make_tape_recovery by either creating the /var/opt/ignite/recovery/default file or by using the "-a /dev/rmt/8mn" option.