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Special Forums UNIX and Linux Applications No alarm triggered when backup tape is full Post 302624231 by kimurayuki on Monday 16th of April 2012 03:58:08 AM
Old 04-16-2012
Thanks Scrutinizer for your answer Smilie

I have another question here.

Just now I tar a dummy file into the existing blank tape on the solaris server:

Code:
provadm@BDK_OLP_NPOLP_01:./tmp%tar cvf /dev/rmt/0n /tmp/masterfile
a /tmp/masterfile 2000000 tape blocks
tar: write error: I/O error

Later on, I checked the tape status as follows:
Code:
provadm@BDK_OLP_NPOLP_01:./tmp%mt -f /dev/rmt/0n status
HP DAT-72 tape drive:
   sense key(0x3)= Media Error   residual= 0   retries= 0
   file no= 0   block no= 0


Media error, what does it implies?
The tape is corrupted?

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HT(4)							     Kernel Interfaces Manual							     HT(4)

NAME
ht - TM-03/TE-16,TU-45,TU-77 MASSBUS magtape interface SYNOPSIS
/sys/conf/SYSTEM: NHT ht_drives # TE16, TU45, TU77 /etc/dtab: #Name Unit# Addr Vector Br Handler(s) # Comments ht ? 172440 224 5 htintr # tu 16 massbus tape major device number(s): raw: 6 block: 0 minor device encoding: bits 0003 specify HT drive bit 0004 specifies no-rewind operation bit 0010 specifies 1600BPI recording density instead of 800BPI DESCRIPTION
The tm-03/transport combination provides a standard tape drive interface as described in mtio(4). All drives provide both 800 and 1600 bpi; the TE-16 runs at 45 ips, the TU-45 at 75 ips, while the TU-77 runs at 125 ips and autoloads tapes. FILES
/dev/MAKEDEV script to create special files /dev/MAKEDEV.local script to localize special files SEE ALSO
mt(1), tar(1), tp(1), mtio(4), tm(4), ts(4), dtab(5), autoconfig(8) DIAGNOSTICS
tu%d: no write ring. An attempt was made to write on the tape drive when no write ring was present; this message is written on the termi- nal of the user who tried to access the tape. tu%d: not online. An attempt was made to access the tape while it was offline; this message is written on the terminal of the user who tried to access the tape. tu%d: can't change density in mid-tape. An attempt was made to write on a tape at a different density than is already recorded on the tape. This message is written on the terminal of the user who tried to switch the density. tu%d: hard error bn%d er=%b ds=%b. A tape error occurred at block bn; the ht error register and drive status register are printed in octal with the bits symbolically decoded. Any error is fatal on non-raw tape; when possible the driver will have retried the operation which failed several times before reporting the error. BUGS
If any non-data error is encountered on non-raw tape, it refuses to do anything more until closed. The system should remember which controlling terminal has the tape drive open and write error messages to that terminal rather than on the console. 3rd Berkeley Distribution January 28, 1988 HT(4)
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