I've had/have this exact problem, I'm at the end of my rope now. from
what I understand alot of the problems have to do with block sizes but
that didn't help me none.
if I try and dd from the drive I get and "could not allocate memory
error"
I can dump fine and now I can even amverify, but its all just luck I
don't know why it just started working.
I have tried two different drives in two differenet machines and get the
same problems. It's just f%@ked. I'm about to install windows!
On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 11:17:04AM -0700, Michael Sobik wrote:
> I posted this earlier, but I have yet more information. It seems that I
> cannot manually recover the dump images from tape like I previously posted.
> I can restore some of them, the smaller ones. If I try something like:
>
> dd if=/dev/nst0 of=/dev/null bs=32k skip=1
>
> the drive reads for a couple of seconds, then just goes back to ready
> status. If I look at the process list I see dd having status D (I think
> that's waiting for I/O).
>
> I thought it must be a problem with my SCSI adaptor (Tekram DC315u) and/or
> drive, but I can dd large mp3 files to and from the tape with compression
> on/off without problems. The drive is a cs1553 and I'm using the
> SURESTORE-12000E tapetype. Does anyone have any idea where I can start
> looking for the problem? BTW the dumps all complete fine, it seems that
> reading them back from tape is the problem. Thanks a lot!
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