From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jean-Philippe BATTU Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2002 07:57:52 +0000 Subject: [Linux-ia64] Again : Pb to write a tape ... Message-Id: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org Hi all Sorry to disturb you again, but I continued to try to write on my exabyte 8505 XL on ia64 , redhat 7.2 I found that large tar and large dump hang, but a direct operation seems to work fine (cat /largefile >/dev/st0), and tar and dump work fine if the destination is a file rather the device tape file. I examine mt and stinit, I was in 0.6 and I installed the 0.7 version after downloading it and compiling it. The problem is still the same. When I use stinit to validate the drive, it seems ok, but the next mt command will delete the previous initialisation. Here is a sample copy of my command : [root@ root]# date ; stinit Tue Oct 8 08:49:09 CEST 2002 Initialized 1 tape devices. [root@ root]# date ; mt -f /dev/st0 status Tue Oct 8 08:49:21 CEST 2002 SCSI 2 tape drive: File number=0, block number=0, partition=0. Tape block size 512 bytes. Density code 0x8c (EXB-8505 compressed). Soft error count since last status=0 General status bits on (41010000): BOT ONLINE IM_REP_EN ok ! [root@ root]# date ; mt -f /dev/st0 status Tue Oct 8 08:49:26 CEST 2002 SCSI 2 tape drive: File number=0, block number=0, partition=0. Tape block size 512 bytes. Density code 0x0 (default). Soft error count since last status=0 General status bits on (41010000): BOT ONLINE IM_REP_EN why the density code has been deleted ? [root@ root]# mt -v mt-st v. 0.7 [root@ root]# Perhaps you will have an advice ! Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated Cheers ! -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Jean-Philippe BATTU Phone : (33) 04 76 29 73 43 Localisation: B1/403 Fax : (33) 04 76 29 75 18 Mail : jean-philippe.battu@bull.net Bull, 01 Rue de Provence B.P. 208 38432 Echirolles FRANCE ---------------------------------------------------------------------