make_recovery gives errors intermediately

[aliasgar]

Hi ,


HP9000/B2000 with hpux 11.00
When running make_recovery, it will start and after a while fail with
the following error:

make_recovery(472): /usr/bin/dd failed,res=512,errno=9

i have changed the drive, tried with new couple of medias, changed the external scsi cable since it is a external dds-3 drive .

has someone faced similar problems


Regards,
Aliasgar.

[Eknath]

Hi Ali, (gheewala?)

Try to remove device files from /dev/rmt and try to recreate with insf -e.

alternatively check following patches\
[PHKL_18543/PACHRDME/English]
[PHCO_20882/PACHRDME/English][PHCO_17792/PACHRDME/English] [PHKL_21003/PACHRDME/English] [PHKL_20079/pachrdme/english] [PHKL_20016/pachrdme/english]
[PHKL_20674/pachrdme/english]

Cheers !!!

Eknath Patil

[Sudeesh]

Hi,

Are you sure your tape drive is in good condition? Though you have changed the drive/media ... verify the drive by taking backup of a large file using tar.

If you can provide us the make_recovery log, will help to assist you further.

/var/opt/ignite/recovery//recovery.log


Sudeesh

[aliasgar]

Hi Ek...ku,

yes i have checked the patch level and also i have changed two drives in order to isolate the problem.

i will try to get the recovery.log file.

Regards,
Aliasgar.

[Senthil Kumar .A_1]

Hi Ali,

make_tape_recovery by default uses../dev/rmt/0m , if this device is not available in system, then it might fail..probably your tape drive is recognised as some other device file ex: /dev/rmt/1m or something else..


If a tape drive other than the default (/dev/rmt/0m) is used, modify the command to point to the device you want to use. For example, if a tape drive is at /dev/rmt/3m, enter:

/opt/ignite/bin/make_tape_recovery -Av -a/dev/rmt/3m