From: Jacob Rieper (jacob.rieper@verizon.net)
Date: Fri Aug 22 2003 - 18:52:35 EDT
I've attached an external SCSI Exabyte VXA-2 drive to our Sun box running
Sol9. An internal DSS-4 drive is also hooked up. Per the instructions, I
added this to st.conf
tape-config-list=
"EXABYTE VXA-2", "Exabyte VXA-2", "VXA-2";
VXA-2 = 1,0x36,0,0x1de39,2,0x80,0x81,1;
and did a reboot -r. Back in Solaris I checked to see if it was configured
with mt -f /dev/rmt/1 status and it showed up ok.
When doing backups to the DSS-4, I did ufsdump like this
ufsdump 0uf /dev/rmt/0cn /
ufsdump 0uf /dev/rmt/0cn /var
etc ...
etc ...
ufsdump 0uf /dev/rmt/0cn /disk1
until all the volumes were done. After rewinding the tape, I could check
to see that stuff was written to the tape with
ufsrestore isf <dump file #> /dev/rmt/0cn
However, when I do the same ufsdump on the VXA-2 drive, rewind the tape and
then check it with ufsrestore isf 1 /dev/rmt/0cn, all I see is the last
dump file. If I do it again, it asks for another tape to be mounted. It
appears the VXA-2 is ignoring the no-rewind flag and rewinding the tape
after each dump file. Not what I'm looking for. Anybody know what's going
on here?
Jacob J. Rieper, Legislative Director
New York State Rifle & Pistol Association
http://www.nysrpa.org
http://www.rpa-pac.org
"You can't trust freedom when it's not in your hands when everybody's
fighting for their promised land."
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