Not to sound droll, but you might want to look at the tape and make sure its not broken.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Shannon Roddy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "BRLUG-general" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 3:56 PM Subject: Re: [brlug-general] tape backup issue > Possible a dumb question, but when you go to /dev/rmt/ and do an ls, > does anything show up? > > If not, do a reconfigure reboot. I am sure there are other ways, but > this is the easiest (IMO). > > Shannon > > On Fri, 2002-08-02 at 15:36, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > 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 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > General mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > -- > Shannon Roddy > __________________________________________________________________ > Systems Administrator California Institute of Technology > [EMAIL PROTECTED] LIGO Livingston Observatory > ph: (225)686-3106 19100 LIGO Lane > fx: (225)686-7189 Livingston, LA 70754 > Web Page http://www.ligo-la.caltech.edu/~sroddy > Calendar/Schedule See Home Page > Wireless Email (255 Chars) [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
