I'm still not clear on what type a drive this is. A few drives can read more formats than they can write. For example a DDS 3 drive can read DDS2 tapes and DDS tapes. But the DDS 3 drive that we have cannot write on DDS 2 tapes. So it might be that you the wrong tapes for the drive to write on.
But the most probable answer is that you have a broken tape drive. The drive request a cleaning when a write operation fails that it expected to work. That often fixes the problem when writes fail. But not always.
I have used ioscan -fnC tape and the system identified the tape drive. what is the command to show a listing of what is on the tape? I have used ls /dev/rmt/rmt0 to no avail. can anyone help?
Thanks in advance (10 Replies)
Hi
I need to make some restore tapes for our old AIX systems
I have purchased some DDS2 tapes and cleaning tapes
The tape drive is rmt0
what commands can I enter to run the cleaning tape through the drive
and are the any commands I can enter to test these drives
prior to using... (2 Replies)
Hi,
The problem I have is I want to restore my AIX machine. I have created a mksysb tape from my tape drive rmt0 and I changed the bootlist using this command "bootlist -m normal rmt0 hdisk0".
However, when I display the bootlist "bootlist -om normal", it shows '-' hdisk0. I googled and... (2 Replies)
I am trying to use this command to eject the tape
mt -f /dev/rmt/0 unload
but it gives me error
mt -f /dev/rmt/0 unload
mt: 0511-575 unload is not a recognized subcommand.
Usage: mt Subcommand
Valid subcommands are:
weof
eof
fsf
bsf
... (5 Replies)
Hi,
I have recently purchase a SUN Storage Tek desktop LTO 4 HH tape drive and connected to a IBM AIX 5.1 server.
The server can detect the tape device.
Can someone please advice urgently.
Thanks (4 Replies)
I've just landed in a situation where an old IBM RS/6000 7025 F40 running AIX 4.2.1 has had it's tape drive fail. The tape drive in question is an HP C1533A 4mm 4GB/8GB DAT drive. It repeatedly gets write failures, and my trusty techique of whacking the cleaning tape in hasn't worked. Unfortunately... (2 Replies)
Currently I have a Dell Ultrium LTO 2 Tape Drive. I am going to have a IBM AIX server. Just wonder if it is possibe to connect this tape drive to the aix server? I have Brightstor Arcserver installed on another win 2003 server. Is it possible to install the arcserve agent on the aix and use the... (1 Reply)
tms(4) Kernel Interfaces Manual tms(4)Name
tms - TMSCP magnetic tape interface
Syntax
For UNIBUS, Q-bus:
controller klesiu0 at uba0
controller uq0 at klesiu0 csr 0174500 vector uqintr
tape tms0 at uq0 drive 0
For MSI Bus:
adapter msi0 at nexus?
controller dssc0 at msi0 msinode 0
tape tms0 at dssc0 drive 3
For VAXBI:
controller klesib0 at vaxbi0 node 0
controller uq0 at klesib0 vector uqintr
tape tms0 at uq0 drive 0
controller aie0 at vaxbi? node?
controller bvpssp0 at aie0 vector bvpsspintr
tape tms0 at bvpssp0 drive 0
For MSI Bus:
adapter msi0 at nexus?
controller dssc0 at msi0 msinode 0
tape tms0 at dssc0 drive 0
For VAX CI/HSC:
adapter ci0 at nexus?
adapter ci0 at vaxbi? node?
controller hsc0 at ci0 cinode 6
tape tms0 at hsc0 drive 3
Description
Prior to Version 2.0, this device was referenced by tmscp(4).
The TMSCP driver provides a standard tape drive interface, as described in This is a driver for any controller that adheres to the Tape
Mass Storage Control Protocol (TMSCP). The TMSCP controllers communicate with the host through a packet-oriented protocol termed the Tape
Mass Storage Control Protocol. This driver also supports n-buffered reads and writes to the raw tape interface (used with streaming tape
drives). See for further details.
Tape Support
TK50, TK70, TF70, TU81, TU81e, TA78, TA79, TA81, RV20, TA90, TA90E, TA91
Diagnostics
All diagnostic messages are sent to the error logger subsystem.
FilesSee Alsomtio(4), nbuf(4), MAKEDEV(8), uerf(8), tapex(8)
Guide to the Error Logger
tms(4)
