tbtape crashes system

Posted in 1993

Kurt Kessel — Wed, 7 Apr 1993 13:01:17 GMT — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

My organization is running Informix 4.10 on a Sun 330 on a 7x24 schedule. It is manually backed up daily. Yesterday the operator started to perform his daily backup and inserted a write protected tape. tbtape crashed the system!!! Below is the system log entry. Apr 6 18:21:56 aaahq03 vmunix: st0: wrong tape for writing, use DC6150 tape (or equivalent) Apr 6 18:25:27 aaahq03 vmunix: panic: timeout table overflow Apr 6 18:25:27 aaahq03 vmunix: syncing file systems... [25] 2 [25] 2 Does anybody have any suggestions or observations? Thanks in advance. --- Kurt Kessel American Automobile Association Kurt@aaa.com