From: Rob McDonnell (robert.mcdonnell@let.uu.nl)
Date: Mon Aug 30 2004 - 05:07:13 EDT
Hi All,
OK I got zero replies but for completeness my solution was to use the
following syntax:
#flarcreate -n "some archive name" -t /dev/rmt/0c
ie /dev/rmt/0c not /dev/rmt/0
Looks like you need to completely specific the tape device, I guess 0h
etc work too.
Cheers,
Rob
Rob McDonnell wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am having some issues writing a flash archive to tape :
>
> Tape is:
> #mt status
> Vendor 'COMPAQ ' Product 'DLT8000 ' tape drive:
> sense key(0x0)= No Additional Sense residual= 0 retries= 0
> file no= 0 block no= 0
>
> OS is:
> SunOS <system> 5.9 Generic_112233-12 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V240
>
> Flar command is:
> #flarcreate -n <system> -t /dev/rmt/0
> WARNING: hash generation disabled when using tape (-t)
> Full Flash
> Checking integrity...
> Integrity OK.
> Running precreation scripts...
> Precreation scripts done.
> Determining the size of the archive...
> 11358516 blocks
> The archive will be approximately 5.41GB.
> Creating the archive...
> 11358516 blocks
> ERROR: Unable to write archive.
>
> /var/adm/messages says:
> Aug 27 10:59:37 <system> scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING:
> /pci@1c,600000/scsi@2,1/st@6,0 (st13):
> Aug 27 10:59:37 <system> write: not modulo 2 device granularity
>
> I probably need to use the position -p and blocksize options -b
>
> Anyone seen this before.
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> Rob
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