11i Make_Tape_Recovery Recovery Fails

[Ken Martin_3]

After making a tape with Make_Tape_Recovery off the 11i Sept 2001 B3920-14052 CD the build looks fine. When running from SCSI tape to test the newly made tape I get errors. I tried it with different tapes and different tape drives.

make_tape_recovery -v -I -x inc_entire=vg00

Build does not display any errors. On loading from cold start of the B132 I get one of two messages as follows:

Main menu enter command> bo p1 (p1 is tape)
Interact with IPL > n
Booting...

Failed to initialize

ENTRY_INIT
Status = -3
FFFFFFFD 00000002 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 00000001D 0 0 454E4841 00000001 0 454E4842
0 0 0 0 00000400 0 0 0

Failed to initialize

=== or ===

Main menu enter command > bo p1
Interact with IPL > n
Booting...

Boot IO Dependent Code (IODC) revision 150

Failed I/O operation
ENTRY_IO
Status = -5
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 00000008 0 0 454E4841 00000002 0 454E4843
0 0 0 0 00000002 0 0 0

Error Reading IPL

After both of the above you are presented with the system boot menu?

Any ideas?

Thanks.

[harry d brown jr]

What kind of tape drive are you using? If it's a DLT, I don't think it is supported for boot. Is your system bootable, if so, can you post an "ioscan -fn"??

live free or die
harry

[Helen French]

hey,

Can you try making the ignite tape with '-A' option ?

Also, after creating recovery tape, run 'check_recovery'. This will compare the current system status with the recovery status file created by last invocation of make_recovery. You may get some better idea !

HTH,
Shiju

[Ken Martin_3]

Harry,

The first drive I tried was a standard HP 2-4mm 2GB SCSI DAT drive 35480-00906. The next drive I tried was a Seagate STD28000N-SB (Scorpion-8) 4-8GB 4mm SCSI DAT drive configured for HP/UX switch 9 & 10 off (per Seagate manual), parity "Disabled" per Seagate manual, Data compression DDS enabled per Seagate manual, SCSI ID set to 3, Termination power enabled, Termination off.

ioscan -fn returns:

target 2 8/16/5.3 tgt
tape 0 8/26/5.3.0 stape claimed device ARCHIVE Python 84687-XXX

/dev/rmt/0m
/dev/rmt/0mb
/dev/rmt/0mm etc. etc.

Per Seagate manual the ARCHIVE Python name is sent to the HP machine. As an option SEAGATE DAT can be returned by the drive by setting of switch 7 on the drive. Default is ARCHIVE.

I DO NOT appear to get any write errors? I can tar and cpio to the tape drive OK.

Ken

[Ken Martin_3]

Heres some more info on the failure. When I run make_tape_recovery -A -I -v -a /dev/rmt/0mn it appears to work. However reviewing the file /var/opt/ignite/logs/makrec.log2 reveals an error at line 38,127:

usr/lib/pa20_64/libcurses.sl
pax: write: I/O error
pax: A write error has occurred

Yet the program continues?

Making the tape with /opt/ignite/bin/make_recovery -A -i -d /dev/rmt/0mn reports success when done but it does not boot either. Its "flist" file shows all the system files?

I have included by attachment the script output.

Any ideas would be appreciated...