Re: Problems with legato labelling new tap

From: Florian Stiassny (flo_at_xvnews.unconfigured.domain)
Date: 01/29/04


Date: 29 Jan 2004 12:52:27 GMT

In article 1@ID-222334.news.uni-berlin.de, Daniel Wetzler <Daniel.Wetzler@uni-koeln.de> writes:
>Hallo,
>
>thanks for the answer.
>Unfortunately that's not the solution.
>If the jukebox would label the tapes correctly the error
>messages would't appear at a 2nd run of the labelling.
>But unfortunately they do :-(.
>
>Do you have another idea what could be the solution of my problem ?
>
>Greetings,
>
>Daniel
>

the first record of the tape is 32k in size and its the label, can you read it ?
$ tcopy /dev/rmt/0b
file 1: record 1: size 32768
file 1: eof after 1 records: 32768 bytes
file 2: record 1: size 32768
file 2: eof after 1 records: 32768 bytes
file 3: records 1 to 12500: size 32768
file 3: eof after 12500 records: 409600000 bytes
file 4: records 1 to 12500: size 32768
file 4: eof after 12500 records: 409600000 bytes
this tcopy was run on 8mm tape
try to dump the label, if any ; dd if=/dev/rmt/0 bs=32k | od -c
- any messages in /var/adm/messages ?
- is it the same with a brand new (never used) tape and with a tape used with ufsdump ?

>
>Florian Stiassny wrote:
>> In article 1@ID-222334.news.uni-berlin.de, Daniel Wetzler <Daniel.Wetzler@uni-koeln.de> writes:
>>
>>>Hallo,
>>>
>>>I'm trying to use new tapes with legato, working with a SUN Storedge l25.
>>>The l25 is configured as a "Jukebox" and if I do an inventory with all
>>>tapes, it works properly but tells me that none of the tapes are labelled.
>>>If I want to label all the tapes, I get for each tape the error :
>>>
>>>Wed 14:49:47 /dev/rmt/0cbn read open error, I/O error
>>>Wed 14:49:47 nsrjb notice: nsrjb -j l25 -Y -O64 -L -g -bDefault -f
>>>/dev/rmt/0cbn -S 2 bcsunfire01.bc.uni_koeln.de.001
>>>Wed 14:49:48 /dev/rmt/0cbn 1:Verify label operation in progress
>>>
>>>The tapes are read/writeable, because I used them for normal
>>>ufsdump-operations before, which worked properly.
>>>
>>>Does anyone know what's going wrong with my tapes ?
>>>
>>>Greetings,
>>>
>>>Daniel
>>>
>>
>> its an io error because legato try first to read the label, but because tapes are new
>> there is no label. tapes are properly labeled
>>
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