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Tape Drive Configuration
Post 302430519 by njoroge on Friday 18th of June 2010 02:38:39 AM
06-18-2010
Tape Drive Configuration
Dear All,
I have a tape drive which has worked for offer 3yrs properly on SCO Openserver Release = 3.2v5.0.5. I tried to clean it all invain. I did a fresh installation of unix of the same OS and did the configuration still didn't bear fruits. The tape is a scsi and the configuration is as follows:
- Attached to adaptec 2940U2W - 7800 family
mkdev tape
1. Scsi tape drive
2. Scsi host adapter - blad for blad325
3. blad scsi host adapter - 0
4. scsi bus - 0
5. target id - 6
6. LUN of id - 0
and then updates the kernel.
When i try to backup or list contents of the tape drive using this command :- tar cvfb /dev/rStp0 20 /u i get this error:- tar: cannot open: /dev/rStp0
Please give a hand on this since am supposed to do full system backup.
Joseph Njoroge
I have a tape drive which has worked for offer 3yrs properly on SCO Openserver Release = 3.2v5.0.5. I tried to clean it all invain. I did a fresh installation of unix of the same OS and did the configuration still didn't bear fruits. The tape is a scsi and the configuration is as follows:
- Attached to adaptec 2940U2W - 7800 family
mkdev tape
1. Scsi tape drive
2. Scsi host adapter - blad for blad325
3. blad scsi host adapter - 0
4. scsi bus - 0
5. target id - 6
6. LUN of id - 0
and then updates the kernel.
When i try to backup or list contents of the tape drive using this command :- tar cvfb /dev/rStp0 20 /u i get this error:- tar: cannot open: /dev/rStp0
Please give a hand on this since am supposed to do full system backup.
Joseph Njoroge
Last edited by njoroge; 06-18-2010 at 10:31 AM..
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LEARN ABOUT SUNOS
tcopy
tcopy(1) User Commands tcopy(1) NAME
tcopy - copy a magnetic tape SYNOPSIS
tcopy source [destination] DESCRIPTION
The tcopy utility copies the magnetic tape mounted on the tape drive specified by the source argument. The only assumption made about the contents of a tape is that there are two tape marks at the end. When only a source drive is specified, tcopy scans the tape, and displays information about the sizes of records and tape files. If a des- tination is specified, tcopy makes a copies the source tape onto the destination tape, with blocking preserved. As it copies, tcopy pro- duces the same output as it does when only scanning a tape. The tcopy utility requires the use of Berkeley-compatible device names. For example, example% tcopy /dev/rmt/1b /dev/rmt/2b ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWesu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
mt(1), ioctl(2), attributes(5) NOTES
tcopy will only run on systems supporting an associated set of ioctl(2) requests. SunOS 5.10 10 Mar 2000 tcopy(1)