IRIX 6.5.25, upgraded today from 6.5.19 Amanda 2.4.4p1-20030716 Hello amanda users,
This will sound familiar to some of you, at least its good news, of a sort. This is likely an SGI question, but I thought I'd see if it sounded familiar to anyone and wanted to also thank you again for your previous help on this issue (several months ago, I've been waiting for a hardwar delivery). Remember that SGI Origin 300, SCSI daisy-chain to raid array, to sdlt/jukebox to sdlt/shoebox. It violated the length of the scsi chain, it shouldn't have but it turned out the robot was narrow and that had a big effect on the bus. Well, the new pci-scsi card came in and we installed it. IRIX will not see the card under 6.5.19 but did after an upgrade to 6.5.25. Modified amanda.conf to see the sdlt/jukebox on the new bus, all other devices where left on the original bus. Both buses are now within legal parameters. I reset the blocksize on the tape drive, will need to do this after each reboot apparently. # mt -f /dev/rmt/tps7d4nrns setblksz 32768 Though perhaps we should choose a different value. samar 83# ls -l /dev/sdlt2 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root sys 19 Apr 1 13:25 /dev/sdlt2 -> /dev/rmt/tps7d4nrns samar 81# mt -f /dev/sdlt2 status Controller: SCSI Device: QUANTUM: SDLT320 3838±8 Status: 0x22260 Drive type: unknown Media : READY, writable, not at BOT, block 1 samar 82# mt -f /dev/sdlt2 blksiz Recommended tape I/O size: 204800 bytes (400 512-byte blocks) Minimum block size: 4 byte(s) Maximum block size: 16777212 bytes Current block size: 32768 byte(s) Anyway - it seems to work and I am able to use amrestore to pull a DLE back from tape to disk. For the first time/finally. But I'm unable to read the restored file, either from the copy of the file on disk or directly using the amrestore -p and a pipe to xfsrestore. samar 84# xfsrestore -if samar._usr5_tapu.20050401.1 /usr5/dumps/restore xfsrestore: using file dump (drive_simple) strategy xfsrestore: version 3.0 - type ^C for status and control xfsrestore: searching media for dump xfsrestore: ERROR: media file header checksum error : : xfsrestore: ERROR: media file header checksum error xfsrestore: ERROR: media file header magic number mismatch xfsrestore: restore complete: 1 seconds elapsed xfsrestore: Restore Summary: xfsrestore: stream 0 (pid 6245) /tmp/restore/samar._usr5_tapu.20050401.1 OK (success) xfsrestore: Restore Status: SUCCESS Any idea what is wrong with the dump file ? Suspect its not an amanda issue but thought I'd ask. thank you, Brian --- Brian R Cuttler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Support (v) 518 486-1697 Wadsworth Center (f) 518 473-6384 NYS Department of Health Help Desk 518 473-0773