Error restoring Ignite Tape

[Christina Martin]

I have an L2000 running 11.0 HP UX
The ignite version is:

Ignite-UX-11-00 -> B.3.6.82

When we try to restore the tape to the system we get the following errors:

Could not clear boot block on disk "/dev/rdsk/c1t2do"; fwrite Invalid argument (errno = 22).

Any help you can give me would be appreciated. We've tried swapping out disk drives thinking it was a hard drive problem, still didn't work. We are now dumping this ignite tape onto another system and it's working perfectly….

Thank you
Lisa Taylor

[MarkSyder]

For what it's worth, errno 22 means "Invalid argument" (as found in /usr/include/sys/errno.h).

If you can post the exact command you're using perhaps someone can spot the argument that's causing the problem.

Mark Syder (like the drink but spelt different)

[Christina Martin]

The command we use is in a script ...

/opt/ignite/bin/make_tape_recovery -v -x inc_entire=vg00 -x inc_entire=vgajp

this works on all other 31 machines...haven't had problems with it in the 2 years it's been out on our systems.

Lisa

[Sanjay_6]

Hi,

Take a look at this thread,

http://www1.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/search.do?category=c0&mode=id&searchString=UIUXKBRC00007734&searchCrit=allwords&docType=Security&docType=Patch&docType=EngineerNotes&docType=BugReports&docType=Hardware&docType=ReferenceMaterials&docType=ThirdParty&search.x=15&search.y=12

The itrc doc id is UIUXKBRC00007734

Hope this helps.

Regds

[MarkSyder]

What volume group is on /dev/rdsk/c1t2d0?

Mark

[Christina Martin]

vg00 resides on c1t2d0 so it IS my OS boot disk.


Lisa

[Christina Martin]

Just wanted to add more info from what we've discovered...

System a has 4 disk drives with 34732 Mb capacity
System b has 4 disk drives with 3 34732 Mb capacity and 1 35003 Mb capacity.

The error we are receiving when trying to restore the Ignite tapes from system B to system a is:

Could not clear boot block on disk "/dev/rdsk/c1t2do"; fwrite Invalid argument (errno = 22).

This difference in disk drive sizes is NOT the boot diskâ ¦it's part of the 2nd volume group on the system (not vg00).

Lisa Taylor