[rescue] Solaris 10 / DDS-3 drive issues (ongoing)

[Bill Bradford]

On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 10:29:35AM -0500, Bill Bradford wrote:
> I'm having a heck of a time getting an IBM-firmwared 12/24gig DDS-3
> tape drive to work under Solaris 10 (update 2).  

Well ain't that a thang.    Check this out:

root at bradford:/> ls -al /dev/nrst*
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           8 Apr 30 15:58 /dev/nrst12 ->
rmt/0mbn
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           8 Apr 30 15:58 /dev/nrst20 ->
rmt/0hbn
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           8 Apr 30 15:58 /dev/nrst28 ->
rmt/0cbn
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           8 Apr 30 15:58 /dev/nrst4 ->
rmt/0lbn
root at bradford:/> mt -f /dev/nrst28 status
/dev/nrst28: no tape loaded or drive offline
root at bradford:/> mt -f /dev/nrst4 status 
Seagate DAT tape drive:
   sense key(0x5)= Illegal Request   residual= 0   retries= 0
   file no= 0   block no= 0
root at bradford:/> mt -f /dev/nrst4 rewind
root at bradford:/> cd /tape
root at bradford:/tape> ls
root at bradford:/tape> mt -f /dev/nrst12 status
/dev/nrst12: no tape loaded or drive offline
root at bradford:/tape> mt -f /dev/nrst20 status
/dev/nrst20: no tape loaded or drive offline
root at bradford:/tape> mt -f /dev/nrst4 status 
Seagate DAT tape drive:
   sense key(0x5)= Illegal Request   residual= 0   retries= 0
   file no= 0   block no= 0
root at bradford:/tape> tar xvf /dev/nrst4
<files coming off the tape>

That would certainly explain it - I was trying to use nrst12 the whole
time, as I'd been told that the data had been written to the 0mb device
on the origin system (not 0lb).  

Bill

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Bill Bradford 
Houston, Texas