I'm sorry -- I somehow filed this away withot answering.
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Brian Cuttler <br...@wadsworth.org> wrote:
> read(4, 0x080887A0, 32768) Err#5 EIO
This is the read error. As you can see, it doesn't give much detail
-- just EIO. The subsequent
> ioctl(4, (('m'<<8)|1), 0x080469CC) = 0
is a rewind request, which is successful. I don't kow much about the
Solaris tape driver in general. 'man st' says:
EIO During opening, the tape device is not ready
because either no tape is in the drive, or the
drive is not on-line. Once open, this error is
returned if the requested I/O transfer could not
be completed.
Is there any indication of what this problem might be in the kernel logs?
Note that the actions Amanda is performing are:
open
rewind
read 32k blocks until getting an EOF indication:
/2: read(4, 0x08170A40, 32768) = 0
attempt to read the next block (which should begin the next file)
These steps aren't particularly easy to duplicate from the command
line, since 'dd' closes its input once it reaches an EOF.
Dustin
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Storage Software Engineer
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