Re: dbimport question

Jason Berryhill wrote: > > Hello all: > > We are running Inf. Online Dyn. Server 7.x on NT Server 4.0 (four way 200 > pentium pro processors with 2GB RAM). I am trying to load a database from > a set of tapes we received that was created with a dbexport from the exact > same version of informix but was off a UNIX box. > > The error I am receiving is that the dbimport is unable to connect to the > tape device with a return code of 22. > > Can anyone help in the following: > > 1. Does anyone know what the return code of 22 in dbimport means? > > 2. Can anyone think of a reason an NT box would not be able to > read tapes cut on a UNIX machine? > > Thanks for your consideration and help. > > Jason > Jason, I think that this 22 is error from open or read system call (or whatever this is called on NT). On UNIX, error 22 means "invalid argument", and NT kept most of same errno numbers (see errno.h in your C SDK inclusde directories). On tape drives this often means improper density seting, block size etc. This is just a guess, but I try and rule the problem with tape out first. You could write a little program to read a tape (something like UNIX od), and see what happens. Good luck! Dragi "Bonzi" Raos +--------------------------------------------------------+ | 4-MATE Information Engineering Inc. | +--------------------------+-----------------------------+ | 4-MATE | Tel: +385 (1) 242-116 | | Kosa bb | +385 (1) 242-126 | | 10000 Zagreb | Fax: +385 (1) 242-121 | | Hrvatska (Croatia) | e-mail: bonzi@4mate.hr | | | URL: http://www.4mate.hr | +--------------------------+-----------------------------+