RE: ontape issues with AIX
some years ago I was installing Informix on an AIX box for the first (and so
far only) time and we had to set the tape block size via the smit utility to
zero, which if memory serves me right meant that the tape block size is
undefined or read from the tape in the device (we tried it just for the heck
of it after spending 30 mins cycling thru multiples of 8; imagine our
surpise when it worked!).
Are there any implications of performing archives using this setting in smit
for tape block size (i.e. set it to zero and not some value like 128)? For
Ian's sake.
Best regards,
Edmund Nigel Gall
Senior Information Systems Specialist
Process Plant Services Limited
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-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Watson [mailto:Paul.Watson@gmaccc.co.uk]
Sent: 2000 February 02 5:47 AM
To: Ian Willetts
Cc: informix-list@iiug.org
Subject: Re: ontape issues with AIX
What is errno 6, (check /usr/include/sys/errno.h), under Solaris it's
no such device so tweaking the tape size won't help:-)
Ian Willetts wrote:
>
> Can anyone shed some light on this.
>
> I am using ontape to do a level0 backup on a 100Gb + database on AIX. I
get
> the error 'code -1 errno 6' just after loading a tape. Have tried to
tweek
> the TAPE size param but still am having problems.
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