Re: DAT Tape problem after move from 4.01 to 5.03

Posted in 1995

Claude Chesselet — Mon, 2 Oct 1995 15:39:30 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

In article <44n7n3$4or@sydney1.world.net> Steven McDonald <mcdonste@ozemail.com.au> writes: >Path: aztec.co.za!iafrica.com!ticsa.com!cstatd.cstat.co.za!ucthpx!ee.und.ac.za!psgrain!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!news.sprintlink.net!news.us.world.net!news.aus.world.net!usenet >From: Steven McDonald <mcdonste@ozemail.com.au> >Newsgroups: comp.databases.informix >Subject: DAT Tape problem after move from 4.01 to 5.03 >Date: 1 Oct 1995 23:20:03 GMT >Organization: Sunicrust >Lines: 23 >Message-ID: <44n7n3$4or@sydney1.world.net> >NNTP-Posting-Host: melb18.world.net >Mime-Version: 1.0 >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (Windows; I; 16bit) >Hi all, >We have just moved a 10GIG Online 4.01 system to 5.03uc2 with >only minor problems ( ie required kernel tune & build ). >The system ( SCO 3.2.4 on Compaq proliant 2000 and SCO EFS 1.8 ) did >archive fine to a HP 4mm DAT tape ( Dynatek body ) but now >we get the following error: > NOTICE: Stp: hp_Stp_setbsize - Mode Select failed on SCSI tape 1 dev > 46/5 (ha=0 id=3 lun=0) > and > Online archive failed. errno=6 >Any ideas ? >Regards. >Any ideas would be appretiated Errno 6 as a Unix error is device not found, it may be permissions on that device which are incorrect. I recently had the case that I was getting that error on the root dbspace, because the disk device which I had setup as the online root dbspace was broken. So either there is a permissions problem, or your dat tape must be re-installed or replaced. Can you write to it with a straight cpio or tar from the command line as the same userid which does the archive?