Well, you could try breaking down the steps instead of doing them all at the same time.
Just a thought.
-Craig
--- On Tue, 4/26/11, Mark Landin <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
From: Mark Landin <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Install hanging while installing FOS
To: "Craig Lalley" <[log in to unmask]>, [log in to unmask]
Date: Tuesday, April 26, 2011, 12:16 PM
Tape reads fine doing a LISTDIR.
On 4/26/11, Craig Lalley <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I still think you may have a bad tape.
>
> Can you try doing a restore *t;;listdir, from that system or another?
>
> -Craig
>
>
> --- On Tue, 4/26/11, Mark Landin <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> From: Mark Landin <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Install hanging while installing FOS
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Tuesday, April 26, 2011, 11:30 AM
>
> This system has been successfully using another model 20 for over10
> years. Both the old and the new arrays were connected to two add-on
> FWSCSI cards.
>
> Note that I had no problems doing the INSTALL from factory SLT using
> the same tape drive and disk array.
>
> On 4/26/11, Gilles Schipper <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> I'm guessing bad tape or tape drive drive, unless .....
>>
>> Is it possible the FWSCSI adapter that your mod20 is attached to has
>> old firmware.
>>
>> Must be rev. 3636 or newer. 3728 is best, but will work with 3636.
>>
>> You mention the system is a 939.
>>
>> Is the mod20 attached to the FWSCSI port of the MFIO card?
>>
>> Or is it to an optional add-on FWSCSI card?
>>
>> If the latter, it is possible you could have older firmware.
>>
>>
>>
>> At 01:04 PM 2011-04-26, Mark Landin wrote:
>>>Two problems with that:
>>>1) I don't own GLANCE
>>>2) I don't even have FOS loaded yet. Glance isn't part of factory SLT, is
>>>it?
>>>
>>>On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 11:30 AM, Keven Miller <[log in to unmask]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> > I was thinking Glance to show whats going on.
>>> > But showdev tape will show if the device has been allocated yet.
>>> >
>>> > I have some vague memory of similar instance
>>> > where I thought it should be reading the tape.
>>> > But the software was doing house cleaning and just took awhile before
>>> > it
>>> > got to the actual restore.
>>> >
>>> > Hence, the thought of Glance to show whats happening,
>>> > cpu% etc.
>>> >
>>> > Keven Miller
>>> >
>>> >
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>>>
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