From: Mike Dresser <mdresser@windsormachine.com>
To: Camm Maguire <camm@enhanced.com>
Cc: Khalid Aziz <khalid@fc.hp.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.2.18 IDE tape problem, with ide-scsi
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 10:34:45 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3A9D1A95.51CE4AEC@windsormachine.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54u25g3yb9.fsf_-_@intech19.enhanced.com> <3A9BC2A9.F5EE8554@fc.hp.com> <544rxg2gde.fsf@intech19.enhanced.com> <3A9BC8ED.698DCA2C@fc.hp.com> <54vgpvq4y1.fsf@intech19.enhanced.com> <3A9BEF68.72EEF0E8@fc.hp.com> <54g0gyhlwk.fsf@intech19.enhanced.com>
I ran into a problem with tar and taper, with blocking, so what i do is backup a 128k file of emptiness, to guarantee that the last
block of the real backup fit.
> Restoring a tape typically then says 'gunzip: unexpected end of
> file'. My guess was that the last fractional block of 32k wasn't
> flushed to the drive. Of course, if I'm having media troubles
> indicated by the first error above, then something else could be
> happening, I suppose. But does erroneous block flushing in the driver
> sound like a possibility?
Mike Dresser
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-02-28 15:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-02-27 16:06 2.2.18 IDE tape problem, with ide-scsi Camm Maguire
2001-02-27 15:07 ` Khalid Aziz
2001-02-27 17:19 ` Camm Maguire
2001-02-27 15:34 ` Khalid Aziz
2001-02-27 19:52 ` Camm Maguire
2001-02-27 18:18 ` Khalid Aziz
2001-02-27 20:26 ` Andre Hedrick
2001-02-27 21:26 ` Khalid Aziz
2001-02-28 15:23 ` Camm Maguire
2001-02-28 15:34 ` Mike Dresser [this message]
2001-03-07 22:54 ` Camm Maguire
2001-03-12 16:52 ` Khalid Aziz
2001-03-13 14:14 ` Camm Maguire
2001-02-27 17:32 ` Mike Dresser
2001-02-27 18:31 ` Camm Maguire
2001-02-27 18:34 ` Mike Dresser
2001-02-27 19:05 ` Andre Hedrick
2001-02-27 19:40 ` Camm Maguire
2001-03-01 17:02 ` Khalid Aziz
2001-02-27 22:21 ` Alan Cox
2001-02-27 19:01 ` Andre Hedrick
2001-02-27 19:04 ` Mike Dresser
2001-03-07 0:34 ` [PATCH] " Chip Salzenberg
2001-03-07 1:09 ` Andre Hedrick
[not found] <Pine.LNX.4.10.10102271153560.29323-100000@coffee.psychology.mcmaster.ca>
2001-02-27 17:16 ` Camm Maguire
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