make_tape_recovery error: exec format error

[Tom Henning]

I am attempting to make recovery tapes from 6 J282 workstations, all slightly different configurations. The one workstation with an external DDS 3 tape drive continues to give me an error when testing the recovery tape. The make_recovery command executes without any errors (using flags -Avi), but when I boot the workstation to test the recovery tape it gives me an error: exec format error; and then returns me to the IPL prompt.

I will provide any additional data if required.

Anyone have any idea what is happening to this workstation?

TIA,
Tom

[Bill McNAMARA_1]

Are all the cpus the same...
is the external dds drive the same in all cases?

Bill

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Tom:

Are you sure that the tape was made with the no-rewind option (/dev/rmt/?mn)?

...JRF...

[Tom Henning]

The four machines in the other building are the same except the one giving me problems has an external DDS3 drive, the other 3 have internal DDS 3 drives, all identify as the same model number (and I do not have that model number handy, the other machines are behind a firewall and I have to travel to the other site to work on them).

Yes, the tape recovery was made with the no-rewind device. I watched one run and make_recovery defaults to the no-rewind device, and another run I specified it.