> First I have the patches for the 2.2.16 kernel from On-Stream and the
>drive seems to work fine w/ tar and the "mt" commands. And yes I did
>read the "DI-30" is broken, but those messages seem to pre-date the
>patches from OnStream.
It's nice to know they are working on this, however ...
> I'm running RedHat 7.0. I can "label" the tape and even read the label,
>but whenever I run amdump it "corrupts" the tape. Result any attempt
>to read the tape results in an I/O error. BTW, the backup appears to work
>just fine, I just can't read the tape to recover.
... it sounds like they have a ways to go.
>Note: I can use "tar" (w/ blocksize 32K) to read and write the tape.
But that's not what an Amanda tape looks like. The key difference being
there are multiple files (tape marks) which a single tar run does not
generate. And as I recall, that's where they were having trouble before.
A more accurate test would be something like this (untested):
mt rewind
integer i=0
while ((i < 25))
do
dd if=/dev/hda6 bs=32k of=$TAPE count=$((($RANDOM % 50) + 1))
done
mt rewind
integer i=0
while dd if=$TAPE bs=32k of=/dev/null
do
((i = i + 1))
done
print "files read: $i"
I'm using /dev/hda6 as a source of at least a few MBytes. The actual
data does not matter, although I wouldn't use something like /dev/zero
in case hardware compression is involved.
> I'm running Amanda 2.4.1p1. I have compiled 2.4.2p1, but haven't
>figured
> out how to install it on a machine other than the machine it compiled on
>(A *must*
> requirement).
Is that a request for help? What, exactly, is the question?
> Lew
John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
