# dd if=/dev/ru02 of=/dev/null bs=1024k
7104+0 records in.
7104+0 records out.
#
Guess it still wouldn't hurt to take the box down and fsck the drive. Any
other suggestions??
BTW, I also looked at the man page and some other documentataion for
backup on AIX to see if I could determine what the returned 4 was, and it
didn't have anything helpful.
TIA
-Aaron
Tue, 25 Sep 2001, John R. Jackson wrote:
> >I have been using amanda for a while now. Suddenly a few days ago, we
> >started having a volume fail on one of our AIX boxes. ...
> >| backup: bread from /dev/ru02 [block 543980]: count=22528, got=-1
> >? backup: 38.12% done, finished in 210:59
>
> If this is consistent, I suspect the disk is failing. Does errpt have
> anything interesting to say? What happens if you dd the disk to /dev/null
> (dd if=/dev/ru02 of=/dev/null bs=1024k)?
>
> >-Aaron
>
> John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
