>Can the error appear through a bad termination of the scsi bus???
Bad termination can cause just about anything, so yes.
>> $ mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind
>> $ mt -f /dev/nst0 fsf 1
>> $ dd if=3D/dev/nst0 bs=3D32k count=3D1 > /tmp/block.0
>> $ ls -l /tmp/block.0
>> $ head -4 < /tmp/block.0
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>The result of this command is: AMANDA: TAPEEND DATE X it is a 32k file
That's very odd. It implies the tape is "empty", i.e. has no Amanda
data on it at all. Yet amrestore saw at least some stuff, just not what
it expected.
Are you sure Amanda wrote anything to this tape?
>The problem happens on all tapes i use.
Then I'd start testing that drive and all the associated hardware.
The only other thing I can think of is that you have your software
(driver) configured to use BSD tape semantics instead of SYSV. That could
cause some odd behavior. I don't know enough about Linux to tell you
what to look for, though.
>roshan=
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