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- Subject: AIX 1.2.1 can't find tape
- Message-ID: <JEW.92Nov17092913@venus.venus.sunquest.com>
- From: jew@venus.sunquest.com (Ward... James Ward)
- Date: 17 Nov 92 09:29:13
- Distribution: world,local
- Organization: Sunquest Information Systems
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- I have opened this problem with IBM, but wanted to see if anyone else
- has traveled this road before while they try to recreate the problem.
-
- The problem in a nutshell:
-
- A routine backup is made of the system:
-
- # for i in 1 2 3
- > do
- > dd if=/dev/hd$i /dev/rmt4
- > done
-
- The system hard disk dies and is replaced. The system is booted from
- diskette and the minidisks are created using exactly the same
- parameters as the previous disk.
-
- The system is booted from diskette and the maintenance shell is selected.
- The attempt to restore the disk fails:
-
- # dd if=/dev/rmt4 of=/dev/hd1
- /dev/rmt4: no such device
- # dd if=/dev/rmt0 of=/dev/hd1
- /dev/rmt0: no such device
-
- The device file exists and the 6157 has been verified with diagnostics.
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