DDS 4

[Sp4admin]

Hello,

I am trying to use the DDS 4 for an ignite tape on an Itanium server. When I run my script on DDS 3 it work just fine. If I ran the /opt/ignite/bin/make_tape_recovery -x inc_entire=vg00 -I -v -a /dev/rmt/0mn maualy the dds 4 will work. I have attach my script. any input would be welcome. I have modified the script with -a option and it still doesn't work I just don't get. and yes there is a tape loaded.

here is the error:

ignite.skip.sh: 1.1
There is an issue on trahp6a preventing "ignite.skip.sh" from running. Tape status failed. IS THERE a TAPE LOADED in "/dev/rmt/0m"?

Tape Status:
Drive: HP C5683A
Format:
Status: [41112600] BOT online compression immediate-report-mode
File: 0
Block: 0

Please correct the issue and re-run "./ignite.skip.sh" to complete the Ignite run for 06/13/06.

Thanks in Advance,
sp4admin

[Robert-Jan Goossens_1]

Hi,

Try to change the DEV=/dev/rmt/0m to DEV=/dev/rmt/0mn (no rewind) in the script.

Regards,
Robert-Jan

[Robert-Jan Goossens_1]

and I would add the device to the make_tape_recovery command

/opt/ignite/bin/make_tape_recovery -x inc_entire=vg00 -I ${DEV} >>${LOG} 2>&1

[OldSchool]

OK, with the dds4 tape in the drive, what does the following report:

mt -f /dev/rmt/0mn stat

if there is no info under FORMAT, try something like

tar -cvf /dev/rmt/0m /etc/passwd

and then try the stat again. Does it change?

[Torsten.]

Could be important in your case - please post the output of

model

and

ioscan -fn

[Sp4admin]

found the problem in my script I had "DDS". I change it to "BOT" so when you do a "mt status" it come back with

Drive: HP C5683A
Format:
Status: [41112600] BOT online compression immediate-report-mode
File: 0
Block: 0


# Make sure we have a tape in the drive
STAT=$(mt -f ${DEV} stat)
TAPELOADED=$(print ${STAT} | grep "BOT online") # 1.3

[Sp4admin]

Thanks!