Stef van der Made wrote:
>
> Hi Willem,
>
> The standard stuff like mt -f /dev/ht0 status etc etc works. But tar
> doesn't wan't to-do backups anymore both with and witout the patch on a
> 2.6.0 kernel. I don't have a 2.4.x kernel handy to test if it still
> works with those kernels and my drive.
>
> What I've done is the following:
>
> bash-2.05# tar -cvb 64 -f /dev/ht0 /
> tar: Removing leading `/' from absolute path names in the archive
>
> lost+found/
> usr/
> usr/X11
> usr/adm
> usr/bin/
> usr/bin/w
> usr/bin/ar
> tar: Cannot write to /dev/ht0: Invalid argument
> tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
>
> It looks as if the backup starts but it almost immediatly ends after the
> drive does some spinning and reading and or writing.
It sounds stupid, but you did set the tape block size as appropriate,
didn't you? I've seen similar with incorrect block size writes in the
past, but I don't have the correct hardware home to try it.
--
bill davidsen <davidsen _at_ tmr.com>
CTO TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979
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