--On Wednesday, April 07, 2004 13:08:10 -0700 "Dege, Robert C." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >> On my SDX-500 AIT-2 drives, I have 1-7 off and 8 on. The >> documentation >> says switches 1-4 & 6 are reserved and should be off, 5 is termination >> power, 7 is HW compression (0-off,1-on), and 8 is SW >> compression control >> (0 lets host enable/disable compression, 1 disables host control). I >> think the default is 0-6 off, 7 on , 8 off. The manual says it is >> capable of either fixed or variable block sizes, it doesn't mention >> anything about enabling/disabling it in hardware; it should be up to >> the driver. > > Thanks for the detailed info about the dip switches. My manual lists all but DIP #7 > as reserved. > > >> > 3) Has anyone else using an AIT tape drive had similar problems? >> >> Not me. >> >> Did this problem recently start or have you never used it before? >> Are the tapes new or old? >> What is the exact error you're getting? >> Can you tar or dump directly to and from the tape without errors? >> OS and version? > > This problem existed ever since I tried to do my first resetore from tape. All of > the tapes are less than 4 months old. > > I receive 2 error messages. When using amrecover, I receive an error message to > stdout as follows: > > Extracting files using tape drive /dev/nst0 on host bender. > Load tape BACKUP-22 now > Continue [?/Y/n/s/t]? y > > <snip as restore begins> > > ./r50/bin/MSFD_UTILITY.EXE > ./r50/bin/PDM_SIMULATION_APPLICATION.EXE > ./r50/bin/PGS_CRITERIA_VALIDATOR_DRIVER.EXE > tar: Skipping to next header > tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers > tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors > extract_list - child returned non-zero status: 2 > Continue [?/Y/n/r]? y > amrecover> exit > 200 Good bye. Are you recovering on the client or the server? Are you recovering from more than one DLE? Perhaps the data was compressed on a box using a compression program not available on the box doing the recover. Frank > > > > The other message occurs in /tmp/amanda/amidxtaped debug file: > > amrestore: 8: restoring bender._rfss_ceesim_8k_lib-r50s.20040326.0 > > gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--crc error > > gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--length error > amrestore: 9: reached end of information > amidxtaped: time 294.174: amrestore terminated normally with status: 1 > amidxtaped: time 294.174: rewinding tape ... > amidxtaped: time 341.208: done > amidxtaped: time 341.208: pid 25238 finish time Tue Apr 6 10:26:33 2004 > > > -Rob -- Frank Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sr. Systems Administrator Voice: 512-374-4673 Hoover's Online Fax: 512-374-4501
