>It's looking like that tape is bad. Does this happen on all your tapes
>or just this one? If it's all the tapes, I'd start worrying about the drive
or controller.
Can the error appear through a bad termination of the scsi bus???
>Here's another sequence to try:
> $ mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind
> $ mt -f /dev/nst0 fsf 1
> $ dd if=/dev/nst0 bs=32k count=1 > /tmp/block.0
> $ ls -l /tmp/block.0
> $ head -4 < /tmp/block.0
The result of this command is: AMANDA: TAPEEND DATE X it is a 32k file
> $ mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind
> $ mt -f /dev/nst0 fsf 1
> $ dd if=/dev/nst0 bs=32k of=/dev/null
The result of this command is only: 1 + 0 records in
1 + 0 records out
>If this problem is happening on all your tapes, I'd mount a scratch tape,
>create a file of a few MBytes that is a multiple of 32 KBytes then do
>several dd's with bs=32k to the tape without repositioning in between,
>i.e. so the tape ends up with several files on it. Then rewind the tape
>and read the files back in to see if you get back what you wrote.
The problem happens on all tapes i use.
>John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
best regards
roshan
