I've got a DAT storing a ufsdump of a Solaris 2.5/Intel server. I've got a Solaris 2.6/Intel workstation I'm trying to extract into to recover /export/home/database and stuff. I've got a Seagate STD24000N (with three zeroes, unlike the more common "2400N" label I'm used to seeing) on the 2.6 workstation that doesn't even read. That same tape drive will connect to a docked Windows laptop and image the HD through MS Backup, but it won't even rewind on this 2.6 platform. The drive IS detected during boot as SCSI id 2 and as an st driver tape, but I can't read it, write it, or even rewind it. 'mt rewind' gets me "I/O error: tape not loaded or offline", paraphrased very closely from memory.
Any thoughts? I don't even find "Seagate" tape drives on the sun.com HW compatibility list, which is just bogus. I'm open to suggestions at this point, including another DAT brand and model that is known to work on Solaris 2.6. Thanks. -j
