Hi Mike,
As Hristo kindly points out, since this is an SGI IRIX box,
you should contact your local SGI support for this problem.
Thanks.
It _may_ be the case that the tape drive is not fully
supported by the IRIX scsi tape driver.
Xfsdump uses more mt commands and status tests than
what tar uses.
--Tim
On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 12:41:03PM -0400, Ngan, Michael (NCI) wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am try to setup a IBM LTO Ultrium-td1 tape with a SGI Orign 2000 running
> IRIX 6.5.9. I encounter this error message when I tried to do test dump
>
> xfsdump: WARNING: unable to backspace tape: assuming media error
>
> What is the problem? Is there are fix to this? The tar command works.
>
> thanks,
>
> Mike Ngan
> National Cancer Institute
> 301-402-0324
>
> root@msb:/hw/tape> xfsdump -f /dev/nrtape -L "Test" -M "Tape" /
> xfsdump: version 3.0 - type ^C for status and control
...
> xfsdump: estimated dump size: 5721094016 bytes
> xfsdump: preparing drive
> xfsdump: WARNING: unable to backspace tape: assuming media error
>
>
> root@msb:/hw/tape> mt -f /dev/mt/tps1d3nr status
> Controller: SCSI
> Device: IBM: ULTRIUM-TD1 1550
> Status: 0x24260
> Drive type: unknown
> Media : READY, writable, at EOD, block 3
On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 08:08:17PM +0300, Hristo Grigorov wrote:
>
> Eh, please check... You should have official support from SGI for that... :)
> Not that here is not official but it is Linux related.
>
> Regards, Hristo.
>
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