Re: mksysb failed

[KOG]

Hi Folks,

Hi Folks

I am trying to create mksysb onto a new tape on the new pseries server. For some reason it failed and I am not clear with what the error messages is telling me. I hope you can shed some light?

Error Msgs

Creating tape boot image
0301-161 bosboot : dd failed to copy /dev/rmt0.1

0301-165 bosboot : WARNING bosboot failed - do not attempt to boot device.

0512-016 mksysb : Attempt to create a bootable tape failed : bosboot -d /dev/rmt0.1 -a failed with return code 48.

I have changed the block size and the command ran ok.

chdev -l rmt0 -a block_size=512
done without any probs and I could rewind it back too.

What should I do?


Thanking you all in advance,

Regards

K

 

[Yegolev]

didn't see this until today, could have saved you some time. kclute is right. the old-style tapes, Metal Particle, can only be read from the new 20GB drives, they cannot write to them.

even better, once you put a MP tape in a Mammoth drive, it will kick out any AME (Advanced Metal Evaporated) tape until you clean the drive using a new-type cleaning cart. you are expected to convert your archives to the new cartridge type, so you are allowed limited read access to old-style tapes.

you should see messages to that effect on the LED display of the tape drive.

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[KOG]

Hi all I am on my annual leave for a week and I have ordered 20/40 gb tapes so hopefully the problem will be resolved.

Many thanks for all the responses and help,

Regards

Katherine