Booting from a recovery tape fails with Status -5 Unrecoveral data error

[Wolfgang Joesch]

I used make_tape_recovery, the Ignite UI , the instructions given in make_medialif, ... to create recovery tapes for a B2000 UX 10.20 (nothing special but an additional PCI LAN interface) and all my tapes got created o.k. , no error message.
But trying to boot from these tapes, I always get the error above. I cannot interact with IPL, the error must be earlier.
As I would realy like to use Ignite to simplify my installations, (Cloning systems to be shipped to customers) I will appreciate any suggestions to find the problem.

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Wolfgang:

Are you sure that you specified the no-rewind option (e.g. /dev/rmt/0mn) when you created the tape?

...JRF...

[Wolfgang Joesch]

Hi James,
thanks for your answer, I do use a non rewind tape. I can even read back the content of the tape using the dd command and check it with lifls -l and the output looks like before the copying to tape.

volume ISL10 data size 281239 directory size 3 01/07/09 17:09:58
filename type start size implement created
===============================================================
ISL -12800 16 240 0 01/07/09 17:09:58
AUTO -12289 256 1 0 01/07/09 17:09:58
INDEX BIN 264 1 0 01/07/09 17:09:58
CONFIG BIN 272 99 0 01/07/09 17:09:58
HPUX -12928 376 880 0 01/07/09 17:09:58
INSTALL -12290 1256 26990 0 01/07/09 17:10:00
INSTALLFS -12290 28248 31744 0 01/07/09 17:10:02
FWWKAR BIN 59992 1 0 01/07/09 17:10:02
INSTCMDS BIN 60000 10750 0 01/07/09 17:10:02
SYSCMDS BIN 70752 45488 0 01/07/09 17:10:05
SCRIPTS BIN 116240 42 0 01/07/09 17:10:05

Has anybody a clou what this IPL error Status -5 Unrecoverable data error, refers to ? Where do I have to look for the problem?

[John Bolene · Accepted solution]

Hey wolfgang, hard to reply to your message if you don't bring it back to the front page.

Glad to hear your tape recovery problem was solved.

[Wolfgang Joesch]

John, I have asked Seagate and got the reply that their tape drives do not support booting of them. If I would have known I would not have bought the drive.
Cheers Wolfgang