[daip] Re: 31DEC04 LINUX needs extra work

[Joan Wrobel]

On Fri, 6 Feb 2004, Amy Mioduszewski wrote:

> You can ignore that message if you have no tape drives.

  ok

> Have you tried restarting the TPMONs on the computer
> whose tape drive you want to use.

  just did so right now.  as usual, the mount works fine but the
  fitld read fails with

taiga > FITLD1: Task FITLD  (release of 31DEC04) begins
taiga > FITLD1: Reading tape drive number   1
taiga > FITLD1: ZTPOPR: REMOTE TAPE SYSTEM RETURNS ERROR CODE     99
taiga > FITLD1: ZTPOPN: REMOTE OPEN ERROR  99 TO
taiga > FITLD1: TAPIO: ERROR  99 OPENING FILE
taiga > FITLD1: ERROR      8 OPENING TAPE
taiga > FITLD1: Purports to die of UNNATURAL causes
taiga > FITLD1: localhost    31DEC04 TST: Cpu=       0.0  Real=       0

   fyi this tape read fine last week on euro from euro's drive.

   cheers.  - Joan