Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!rice!sun-spots-request From: rjj@mssun7.msi.cornell.edu (Rich Jaenson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: Exabyte tape drive & SunOS 4.0.3 Message-ID: <709@brazos.Rice.edu> Date: 31 Jul 89 18:12:50 GMT Sender: root@rice.edu Organization: Sun-Spots Lines: 24 Keywords: Hardware Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 91, message 7 of 16 I just upgrade the system from SunOS 3.5 to SunOS 4.0.3. At the same time, our department bought an Artecon 8mm tape drive. Since the server which is a 3/260 has no SCSI port, I connect the tape drive to one of its clients which is a 3/50. So all dumps are remote. Here comes the odd things. I can dump the files and there is no error reported. But I can only read some of the file systems. After trying a lot of experiments, I find that one of the disk partitions gives me problem, I cannot read any file system after that file system. I even tried to re-format the disk, which is a SMD disk and the result is still the same. I have no idea of what is going wrong. Here is the error message appearing on the console of that client when I try to read that file system: st0: failed cmd = 11 1 0 0 2 0 st0 error: sense key(0x9): vendor unique sense = 70 0 9 0 ff ff ff 12 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 40 0 0 1f b7 e9 0 0 st0: failed cmd = 11 1 0 0 1 0 st0 error: sense key(0x9): vendor unique sense = 70 0 9 0 ff ff ff 12 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 40 0 0 1f b8 c 0 0 st0: file positioning error What does "vendor unique" mean? Does anyone has a similar problem? Rich Jaenson (rjj@mssun7.msi.cornell.edu)