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Special Forums Hardware Filesystems, Disks and Memory DG/UX : systemtape Post 30952 by Agent_Orange on Wednesday 30th of October 2002 02:43:18 AM

10-30-2002

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DG/UX : systemtape

hi all,

at the moment i have to setup an dg/ux server ( R4.20MU06 ) it works fine . i have attached a tape device ( wagntek ) and /dev/rmt/0 ( 0n ... ) is created.

i want to make a systemtape from the system with the systemtape util. on the shell i typed :

Code:

systemtape -b /usr/stand/boot.pc -s /usr/stand/sysadm

and the tape is working. ok fine, but how to reinstall the systemtape ?

i've booted form floppy disk and at the boot command prompt i typed :

Code:

sd(apscpci(0),9,0,7),2,0)usr:/sysadm -l DEde

but nothing happens..... the system write Bootstrap on the screen and i wait ..and wait..and wait....

and if i want to boot per SCSI BIOS directly from the tape the same message is writing to the screen and i have to wait ....

any ideas what to do ? many many thanks to all

patrick

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tapeinfo

TAPEINFO(1)						      General Commands Manual						       TAPEINFO(1)

NAME

       tapeinfo - report SCSI tape device info

SYNOPSIS

       tapeinfo -f <scsi-generic-device>

DESCRIPTION

       The  tapeinfo  command  reads  various information from SCSI tape drives that is not generally available via most vendors' tape drivers. It
       issues raw commands directly to the tape drive, using either the  operating  system's  SCSI  generic  device  (	e.g.  /dev/sg0	on  Linux,
       /dev/pass0 on FreeBSD) or the raw SCSI I/O ioctl on a tape device on some operating systems.

       One  good  time	to  use 'tapeinfo' is immediately after a tape i/o operation has failed. On tape drives that support HP's 'tapealert' API,
       'tapeinfo' will report a more exact description of what went wrong.

       Do be aware that 'tapeinfo' is not a substitute for your operating system's own 'mt' or similar tape driver control program. It is intended
       to supplement, not replace, programs like 'mt' that access your operating system's tape driver in order to report or set information.

OPTIONS

       The first argument, given following -f , is the SCSI generic device corresponding to your tape drive.  Consult your operating system's doc-
       umentation for more information (for example, under Linux these are generally start at /dev/sg0 under FreeBSD these start at /dev/pass0).

       Under FreeBSD, 'camcontrol devlist' will tell you what SCSI devices you have, along with which 'pass' device controls  them.  Under  Linux,
       "cat /proc/scsi/scsi" will tell you what SCSI devices you have.

BUGS AND LIMITATIONS

       This program has only been tested on Linux with a limited number of tape drives (HP DDS4, Seagate AIT).

AVAILABILITY

       tapeinfo  is  currently	being maintained by Robert Nelson <robertnelson@users.sourceforge.net> as part of the 'mtx' suite of programs. The
       'mtx' home page is http://mtx.sourceforge.net  and  the	actual	code  is  currently  available	there  and  via  SVN  from  http://source-
       forge.net/projects/mtx.

SEE ALSO

       mt(1),mtx(1),scsitape(1),scsieject(1),loaderinfo(1)

								    TAPEINFO1.0 						       TAPEINFO(1)