Merrily wasting time with CT

[Tim Knight/CT]

I have always been a proponent of the phrase "A day in which you don't
learn something is a day wasted"..........

I need some help to prevent me from wasting time today........all I
want to learn how to do is this:

1. Make a mksysb tape on my 320h (I already did this......and it is
indeed bootable)

2. Without removing the tape from the drive, I want to write the tape
to the hard drive.

3. Then I will replace the tape with a blank one, and write that file
to the blank tape.

4. And finally, I want to boot the 320h with the newly written tape.

Seems quite simple, doesn't it? However, I have read so much horse
shit posted by "gurus" who couldn't guru their collective asses with
both hands.

Would some kindred spirit give the old guy a leg up on this problem?

CT the Ancient Guru Defamer

[Michael W. Ryder]

I think a good point to start with would be to use the dd command to
transfer the data back and forth. The learning part will be figuring
out block sizes and number of files.

[Tim Knight/CT]

On Oct 14, 3:21 pm, "Michael W. Ryder" <_mwry...@worldnet.att.net>
wrote:

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Thanks Michael.......that is what Rick told me in a letter also. If
it is good enough for you guys, it is surely good enough for
me........

Let the joust begin.........bring it on!

I am wearing my battle armor, and a cast-iron jockstrap also :-)

CT the Warrior

[RickE]

On Oct 14, 3:44 pm, "Tim Knight/CT" <msgtkni...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Let the joust begin.........bring it on!

To make the process easier, you might want to pick up the tapeutils
package (referenced in another thread), it's at
http://www.brouhaha.com/~eric/software/tapeutils/

I didn't find an AIX pre-built binary in a quick web search... that
doesn't mean that one doesn't exist, but you might have to build your
own from the source. Since the tapecopy program is already set to
create and restore from tape image files, it might save you a lot of
effort.

Rick Ekblaw

[Michael Kraemer]

Tim Knight/CT schrieb:

>
> Seems quite simple, doesn't it? However, I have read so much horse
> shit posted by "gurus" who couldn't guru their collective asses with
> both hands.
>
> Would some kindred spirit give the old guy a leg up on this problem?
>
> CT the Ancient Guru Defamer

To avoid being defamed I herewith declare myself to be a non-guru.

Why don't you just insert the second tape and make another mksysb?

A mksysb tape has more than one file.
For the transfer to disk and back you'd need the proper blocksizes,
which can be obtained by "tcopy" (which gives you the number of files
on tape as well).

[Basil Holloway]

"RickE" <ekb...@vnet.ibm.com> wrote in message
news:b6b03866-052c-4c87...@l34g2000vba.googlegroups.com...

Rick

Is this the one Tim needs ? Found this on Toolbox site
you can download the Atape driver, which contains the tapeutil binary, from
here:
ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/storage/devdrvr/AIX/

I could not figure out how to get tapeutil binary out of Atape.9.7.5.0.bin
file at the Internet Cafe.
Figured oldest was best for MCA.

[Tim Knight/CT]

Hi Basil........

I finally have Tcopy working (sort of) and have been moderately
successful so far. (and I promise to get your CD on the way to you
soon!)

CT the Slacker

[Basil Holloway]

On a 7044-170 AIX 5.2 downloaded from
ftp://index.storsys.ibm.com/devdrvr/AIX/
Atape.11.7.6.0.bin and successfully installed it with smit.
The 7044 has an external 7208-341 with a mammoth inside courtesy of Rick E.
It does a super quick job on mksysb's , 13 gb in 11 minutes, so I know it is
working okay.
Trying to get the six AIX_3.2.5_00n.img files onto tape that Tim sent me on
DVD ( copied to HD ) but get nothing but error 22 messages on every command
I try.
The IBM .pdf manual says nothing about error 22.
Every think I read about Atape talks on IBM tape libraries.
Is my hardware (Mammoth ) compatible with tapeutil despite the fact it
installed okay ?

Basil

PS Rick " Since the tapecopy program is already set to

create and restore from tape image files, it might save you a lot of

effort." is this feature within tapeutil ?

[RickE]

On Nov 6, 3:36 am, "Basil Holloway" <farl7F...@bigpond.com> wrote:

> PS  Rick " Since the tapecopy program is already set to
> create and restore from tape image files, it might save you a lot of
> effort." is this feature within tapeutil ?

I'd guess not. I looked around for information on Atape, and
everything I found talked about autoloaders or tape libraries, so I'd
say that Atape is not intended for use with your Mammoth drive.

Rick Ekblaw