Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 22:18:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: Sam <freep@thecity.sfsu.edu> Cc: scsi@freebsd.org Subject: RE: one file system two tapes Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10008152214330.15192-100000@beppo.feral.com> In-Reply-To: <NCBBJPDLBJCLBBFADHOMOEHKDGAA.freep@thecity.sfsu.edu>
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Okay- here's the scoop. This particular tape drive seems to be configured to not have EARLY WARNING enabled. This means that when it's near EOT, instead of stopping short of physical end of media, it wait's until it's *really* at the end- and closing filemarks can't b ewritten. I suppose that the sa driver should configure this- but see if there are some jumper settings about this, and maybe somebody else on this list could gen up a camcontrol command string that you could try on the drive to get EEW turned on. In the interim, rather than using the 'a' argument, you *can* generate an estimated amount, call it 3GB and just fake a density and a tape length so that dump(8) will stop before it crosss the 3GB mark. -matt > Dear Mattthew, thank you for your patience. > If you meant /var/log/messages there is a lot of this: > > Aug 14 20:08:55 sol /kernel: (sa0:tekram_trm0:0:3:0): failed to write > terminating filemark(s) > Aug 14 20:08:56 sol /kernel: (sa0:tekram_trm0:0:3:0): tape is now frozen- > use an OFFLINE, REWIND or MTEOM command to clear this state > > I have a HP Surestore 24i and a Tekram DC-315U, > > Sam > Free Print Shop > Website: http://freeprintshop.org > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Matthew Jacob [mailto:mjacob@feral.com] > Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2000 5:34 PM > To: freep > Cc: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: RE: one file system two tapes > > > > > On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > > > > Okay. It'll take me a day or two to get to this, but this is something > that > > should work. Bug me if you don't hear from me in about 3 days. > > > > Well, I'm now confused- I threw an Exabyte 8505 on my system and it wrote to > the end of a short (15m) tape and spat out: > > quarm.feral.com > root dump 0af /dev/ersa2 /space > DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Tue Aug 15 16:50:44 2000 > DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch > DUMP: Dumping /dev/ad0f (/space) to /dev/ersa2 > DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files] > DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories] > DUMP: estimated 2864262 tape blocks. > DUMP: dumping (Pass III) [directories] > DUMP: dumping (Pass IV) [regular files] > DUMP: 5.11% done, finished in 1:32 > DUMP: 11.91% done, finished in 1:13 > DUMP: 18.71% done, finished in 1:05 > DUMP: 25.42% done, finished in 0:58 > DUMP: 32.23% done, finished in 0:52 > DUMP: End of tape detected > DUMP: Closing /dev/ersa2 > DUMP: Change Volumes: Mount volume #2 > DUMP: Is the new volume mounted and ready to go?: ("yes" or "no") yes > DUMP: Cannot open output "/dev/ersa2". > DUMP: Do you want to retry the open?: ("yes" or "no") yes > DUMP: Volume 2 begins with blocks from inode 722450 > DUMP: 34.58% done, finished in 1:14 > .... > > > What does your /var/adm/messages say? > > -matt > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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