Tape Drive Assistance Needed - Please

[franksoprano]

I have a DDS2 Internal IBM tape drive (Made by Segate For IBM).. P/N: 21H5154 FRU P/N: 59H3481 IBM Serial: 0D30957

Ok, well my problem is, I can successfully Read & Tar to the tape in this drive on my home system which is a 43p running base OS of 4.3.3.. When I try to read the tape on my Work Box which is a F30 it spits out all sorts of errors... I get the same results when I try to read a tape that was written on the F30... I have looked for drive settings on the internet and cannot seem to find anything.. Any Suggestion? What should I do?

Thanks!

 

[MoshiachNow]

Hi,

1.Try to set the block size to "0" via smit tape.
2.Post any tape errors from the errpt.
3.Post the error message from F50.

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[Mushr00m]

Frank,

Is the tape drive in the F30 and the 43P the same,(DDS2). If it is, then check the rmtx settings. Make sure that the block size of both drives the same, 0. What kind of errors did you encounter?

 

[crowe]

I have seen MANY cases where a tape is cut from a drive (DDS, DDS2, DDS3, 8mm) on one system, using tar or cpio and it is totaly worthless on another system with the exact same tape drive. I asked an IBM CE about this and he said it is very common for the tape drives heads to get just a little out of allignment. Meaning to create a tape on system "A" (like a backup) will read/restore just fine on system "A", but system "B" could have a hard time reading (if at all successful) the tape cut from sytem "A" if the tape drive heads are "out of specs" on one of the drives. The best thing I have found is if you can figure out which tape drive seems to be the one with the heads out of allignment, replace it.


crowe