From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Mosberger Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2002 15:15:30 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] Problem to write a tape .. Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org >>>>> On Thu, 03 Oct 2002 11:47:41 +0200, Jean-Philippe BATTU said: Jean-Philippe> Hi I am trying to do some backups on an old exabyte Jean-Philippe> 8505XL on my IA64 system running with redhat 7.2 Jean-Philippe> My device is the only one device on the scsi chain. I Jean-Philippe> have a terminator on this chain. Jean-Philippe> I can write little files (tar cvf /dev/st0 Jean-Philippe> /etc/passwd) but when I write large files (dump 0f Jean-Philippe> /dev/st0 /dev/sda3) I get an error on the dump or tar Jean-Philippe> command : Jean-Philippe> DUMP: estimated 3323762 tape blocks. DUMP: Volume Jean-Philippe> 1 started with block 1 at: Thu Oct 3 10:42:06 2002 Jean-Philippe> DUMP: dumping (Pass III) [directories] DUMP: dumping Jean-Philippe> (Pass IV) [regular files] DUMP: write error 49000 Jean-Philippe> blocks into volume 1: Input/output error Jean-Philippe> with on the log message files : kernel: st0: Error Jean-Philippe> 27070000 (sugg. bt 0x20, driver bt 0x7, host bt 0x7) Jean-Philippe> I encountered this problem on redhat 7.1 but the Jean-Philippe> problem seems persisted in redhat 7.2 This won't be of immediate help, but just fyi: I'm using an old hp surestore 6000 (DDS-2) tape drive to back up my i2000 (aka big sur). Each backup is usually ~8GB in size and I haven't seen any problems so far (I also use dump/restore). Jean-Philippe> I looked for some informations about this error Jean-Philippe> messages but all the documents I found where about Jean-Philippe> the termination string, and all is ok Jean-Philippe> Could you help me ? Any suggestions would be greatly Jean-Philippe> appreciated Can't help with deciphering the error message. I vaguely recall that there may have been a problem with early versions of "dump". The one I'm using is 0.4b27/libext2fs v1.27 as shipped by Debian/ia64. --david