toasters February 2000

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Problems dumping onto 2 tapes using F500 and Adic DLT4000
by Simon Butcher 09 Feb '00

09 Feb '00

I have recently begun to require 2 tapes for my backups. However, if I load the tapes into the slots in my DLT4000 (which sysconfig tells me is a FastStor DLT & mt -f rst0a status gives me Digial DLT4000) and do a "dump 0uf urst0a,urst0a /vol/vol0" it appears to work (dumping tape 1 then dumping tape 2) but when i try to restore (with the t option) i find it hasn't touched the second tape at all, but has overwritten the tape 1 with tape 2 data. Any ideas? sysconfig -t doesn't give me … [View More]

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Re: Tape Drives
by Steve Armijo 09 Feb '00

09 Feb '00

On Tue, Feb 08, 2000 at 03:22:17PM -0600, Mark D Fowle wrote: > Does anyone have Spectralogic 4000 (dat) with 4 drives, or Spectralogic 10000 > (ait-2) with 2 drives or > a Breece Hill (DLT 7000) with 2 drives .... attached to your filers ? did the breece hill dance. they are very flaky, but they mostly work once you understand how they want you to function. -s -- Cue the music, fade to black, no such thing as no payback. -PWEI [ armijo(a)cs.unm.edu ]

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Re: RMA reminder calls ( a new wrinkle )
by Bruce Sterling Woodcock 08 Feb '00

08 Feb '00

Yeah, the disks are understandable, and many of the rest are not really broken parts but rather attempts by NTAP to troubleshoot a particular problem (hardware, software, or external). I find the power supply and fan assembly problems to be very bizarre, and guess you are either cursed or don't have the controlled enviornment you think you have. As to the EOL issues, I agree; NTAP should not EOL products as quickly as they do. I would like to see 4+ years going forward. Of course, as a … [View More]

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Pipe trouble
by Ronan Mullally 08 Feb '00

08 Feb '00

I'm having trouble creating a named pipe on a filesystem mounted from a 760 to a Linux system. The 760 is running 5.3.4R3. 'mknod <name> p' gives me a zero-length file rather than a named pipe: # mknod initctl p # ls -la initctl -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Feb 8 15:58 initctl ^ I'm sure this *used* to work (way back when I had a 540). It works fine if I try it on a filesystem mounted from a Linux server... Any ideas? -Ronan

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Tape Drives
by Mark D Fowle 08 Feb '00

08 Feb '00

Does anyone have Spectralogic 4000 (dat) with 4 drives, or Spectralogic 10000 (ait-2) with 2 drives or a Breece Hill (DLT 7000) with 2 drives .... attached to your filers ? Mark Fowle

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RMA stuff
by Jay Orr 08 Feb '00

08 Feb '00

Humm.. I'm still kinda new to netapps. Just had to get replacement SIMMS since we had faulty ones on one of our F330's. I like how they send 2 boxes, each with 2 sticks of SIMMS in them. The boxes are 8"x14"x2" or so. A little overkill, but they're not the only ones guilty of that. My question is - when I have had problems with SUN equipment, they send a packet that has tons of info for returning the defective product including a UPS shipping sticker packed with a replacement part. With these … [View More]

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AIT-2 anyone?
by mgx＠spruce.lsd.ornl.gov 07 Feb '00

07 Feb '00

good day all ... is anyone using AIT-2 to backup their filer's yet? i don't recall hearing about netapp support for AIT yet, but they have been available for awhile now. -- -- michael galloway

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snapshot behavior
by Greg Kitch 07 Feb '00

07 Feb '00

I am using rsync to synchronize directories and have noticed (I think) the following behavior..... I created a snapshot on my filer and ran rsync from the snapshot directory to copy the files to a remote directory. The following day I mistakenly ran rsync from the same snapshot directory without taking a new snapshot. On almost all directories rsynced in this fashion there were no differences between the source and destination directories, as expected. However, in one directory rsync … [View More]

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RE: Any clue to why I'm getting errors below?
by Paquette, Trevor 07 Feb '00

07 Feb '00

On Solaris an 'underflow' is an error due to a busy bus. How loaded is your system? What type of network are you on? Shared or Switched? The numbers of error that you are seeing are not condusive to having different duplex speeds at either end of your connection. If you are running a shared network, then you might be seeing 'backoff' errors. Errors when the shared segment is too busy. (Even though your number of collisions is showing as 0) If you are running a switched network.. then I don't … [View More]know what the problem might be. What type of switch are you connected to? -- Two rights do not make a wrong. They make an airplane. Trevor Paquette | AT&T Canada |Work:(403)705-6390 TrevorPaquette(a)metronet.ca |600, 205 5th Ave SW | Fax:(403)705-9601 http://www.metronet.ca |Calgary, AB, Canada |ICBM:51'03"N/114'05"W Senior Unix Network Architect| T2P 2V7 |Mind:In the Rockies > -----Original Message----- > From: Robert Johannes [SMTP:rjohanne@damango.net] > Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2000 2:51 PM > To: toasters(a)mathworks.com > Subject: Any clue to why I'm getting errors below? > > Below is the out put from ifstat. I'm wondering what could be causing > the errors in both the TRANSMIT and RECEIVE sections, and why the > Underflow in the TRANSMIT section. > > Could(are) the errors and Underflows in the TRANSMIT section be related? > > > OUTPUT FROM IFSTAT > ================== > > daspace1> ifstat e3a > e3a: MAC address 00:c0:95:e0:fc:7c > > RECEIVE > ======== > Packets: 116m | Bytes: 2762m | Errors: 19 > No buffers: 0 | Length err: 0 | Runt frames: > 0 > Long frames: 0 | Collisions: 0 | CRC error: 19 > > H/w overflow: 0 | Process stop: 2239k | List overflow: > 0 > Process reset: 2239k | Rst frame drops: 585 > > TRANSMIT > ======== > Packets: 132m | Bytes: 1196m | Errors: 8376 > > Collisions: 0 | Late collisions: 0 | Excess coll: > 0 > Queue full: 0 | List full: 0 | No carrier: > 0 > Underflow: 8321 | Defer: 0 | Time out: > 0 > Stopped: 0 | List underflow: 2164 | Loss of carrier: > 0 > No buffers: 0 | Requeue: 1396 | Threshold up: 1396 > > Threshold dn: 1396 | Threshold lvl: 0 > > DEVICE > ======= > Interrupts: 224m | Resets: 9 > > LINK INFO > ========= > Auto: Enabled | Mediatype: 100tx-fd| > > Link Partner: Auto | Link State: Up > > > > Any help will be appreciated. Thanks > > robert > -- > Robert Johannes > Systems Administrator > Kairos-Damango Internet Services Inc. > 1300 Godward Street suite 3200 > Minneapolis, MN 55413 [View Less]

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RE: Removing old volume to create spare
by Mohler, Jeff 04 Feb '00

04 Feb '00

You need to boot from floppies, and in maintenance mode you can perform volume operations against the root volume..etc. -----Original Message----- From: Justin Acklin [mailto:Justin.Acklin@sv.sc.philips.com] Sent: Friday, February 04, 2000 9:07 AM To: toasters(a)mathworks.com Subject: Removing old volume to create spare I have some old filers which aren't worth putting on maintanence which I use for old reference data. They are 330s with 4 gig disks. I have a shelf of old 4 gig disks which … [View More]

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