Bug 123671

Summary: error testing TAPE device
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Ready Certification Tests Reporter: Brock Organ <borgan>
Component: tapeAssignee: Rob Landry <rlandry>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Rob Landry <rlandry>
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Description Brock Organ 2004-05-19 22:28:29 UTC
* RHEL3 U2 s390-as
* rhr certification testing
* using rhr2-tests-0.9-14.2, rhr2-externals-0.9-14.2, rhr2-0.9-14.2
* testing NETWORK (with ctc device)
 
when testing TAPE (using 3490F tape device), an error testing occurs
that is reported in the TAPE/*/error.log file:

> tar: /dev/ntibm0: Wrote only 0 of 32768 bytes
> tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
> tar: /usr/bin: Not found in archive
> tar: /usr/dict: Not found in archive
> <...>
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

Comment 1 Brock Organ 2004-05-19 22:29:00 UTC
this may be a tape configuration issue ...

Comment 2 Brock Organ 2004-05-19 22:30:23 UTC
sorry, above line:

* testing NETWORK (with ctc device)

should read:

* testing TAPE 


Comment 3 Rob Landry 2004-05-20 15:36:13 UTC
I would guess so; the tape test is pretty strait forward.  What I can
think of from here is to manually do some backups and restores (like
those in the scripts) and lets see what's required.  I can say that
I've seen cases were you must specify a block size of 128 instead of
64; but that was on x86.

Comment 4 Rob Landry 2004-07-21 15:04:54 UTC
Does lovejoy have a tape drive attached I could work with to resolve this?

Comment 5 Rob Landry 2004-09-14 14:54:04 UTC
Assuming they're nothing fundamentally different on s390; I've
including a blocksize option to the tape test allowing for those
drives which don't talk 32k at a time to be configured.  I'll post a
new package later today.

Comment 6 Rob Landry 2005-04-14 16:53:47 UTC
don't recall when initially added, but blocksize is a tape parameter in -17beta