Re: Meaning of tape error no.

> > >I tried to restore a database from archive (Online version 5.01), and got > >the message: > > > >"Error reading from tape device, Error No. = 5." > > > >I've tried to RTFM, but can't seem to find any reference to the meaning of > >"Error #5". What does this error mean? Better yet, is there any reference > >to what all the tape errors are and what they mean? Thanks. > > > TFM doesn't tell us anything about those ugly errors :-) > > Try looking at '/usr/include/sys/errno.h' (or something like that if I > mispelled it...) > > HTH a bit ... > > Roberto Trevisol > rtrevisol@bamerindus.com.br > > In this case the error is an OS error that Informix is being kind enough to forward to you through their code. This is GENERALLY the case with error messages < 100. Ours also has some defined in the 200 range. I have a little script - a takeoff on finderr: fsyserr: grep " $1 " /usr/include/sys/errno.h which says: #define EIO 5 /* I/O error */ cheers j. _____________________________________________________________________________ Jack Parker - Hewlett Packard, DMD/IS Boise, Idaho, USA jparker@boi.hp.com <--- New address Currently on loan to PLD/PE _____________________________________________________________________________ If anything can go wrong, fix it. To hell with Murphy. _____________________________________________________________________________ Any opinions expressed herein are my own and not those of my employers. _____________________________________________________________________________