chlebana@physics.utoronto.ca (Frank Chlebana) (01/13/91)
Does anybody know what the switch settings are suppose to be on the second board from the back of an exabyte unit connected to a 4D/25. I am running 3.3.1 The prom revisions on the exabyte are mxprom 425A svprom B019 I am having some problems reading multiple tar archives on one exabyte. From the sgi I can only access the first archive on a tape made on a m-120. After positioning the tape at the start of the second archive using tar tvf /dev/nrtape or mt fsf 1 I issue tar tvf /dev/tape and get the message tar: tape read error: invalid arguement Any useful suggestions? I can create and access multiple archives when the sgi is used entirely. tar cv file1 mt feom tar cv file2 tar tv mt fsf 1 tar tv Anyway... Frank Chlebana chlebana@oldkat.physics.utoronto.ca
olson@newmedia.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson) (01/13/91)
In <1991Jan12.154651.22875@helios.physics.utoronto.ca> chlebana@physics.utoronto.ca (Frank Chlebana) writes: | Does anybody know what the switch settings are suppose to be on the second | board from the back of an exabyte unit connected to a 4D/25. The switch settings on the MX board should be 1-4 on, 5-6 off. Switch #1 is the one closest to the outside. However, this doesn't sound like your problem. EINVAL usual indicates an unsupported ioctl. There are some cases where read and write also return it, and they all indicate some kind of blocksize mismatch. Were the first and second tape files created in the same way, and can they both be read on the originating machine? Are you using the fixed or variable block size device? Can the first archive be read?