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1. HP-UX
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)
Discussion started by: Randydog
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2. Solaris
Hi,
We replaced one of our tape drives (attached to a SPARC Server) with an LTO5 one (external, attached vi SAS). Manually we check (using tar) that the OS can write data to the Tape Drive, however, the application backup is failing.
Since the application takes its own backup, the apps team... (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: Mack1982
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3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hello everyone.
I googled a little bit, and the best anwers i had were found in this forum. But , unfortunately, they couldn't give me a solution. So i decided to ask the question completely.
I have two servers:
One RHEL 5 , x64 , with a SCSI DAT72 Tape Drive.
Another (the new one), with... (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: pablobhz
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4. Solaris
Hey folks,
Linux admin here, forced to use Opensolaris to try to use ufsdump/ufsrestore to get some data of some old tapes.
I've got Opensolaris 2009.06 on x86 and a Sony SDX-700V.
As a "control" experiment, I booted the system with a Linux live CD and the tape drive worked perfectly.
... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: eddy_sysad
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5. AIX
I have tape drive in one Lpar. when i saw that time tape is in defined state. After that i deleted the tape drive using the rmdev -R command. Then fired the cfgmgr -v command. But I am not getting the tape drive. Now the drive is even not in defined state also. It is not shown the tape drive. How... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: pernasivam
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6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
I need to restore my tape backup, when I type "tape status" it gives;
status : ready beginning-of-tape write-protected
soft errors : 0
hard errors : 0
underruns : 3
but... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: alisevA3
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7. Linux
Hello. I have Redhat 8.0 on a laptop. Working good.
I wanted to install the tape drive that is physically attached to it. The tape drive worked fine under Windows98SE. It's one of those parallel QIC-80 drives and I confirmed that it is supported by FTape. It appears that FTape might already... (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: RuralTurtle
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8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I'm trying to install a tape drive on a compaq SCO OS 505. well I have gone through the mkdev tape comands and what have you yet no luck. when I reboot and do a simple tape rewind it gives me an error no such device etc.etc. IS there a diference in the xct0 and rct0 a the default?
help.. (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: kikkin
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