On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 10:34:47AM +1100, Jason Thomas wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 12:03:41PM +0100, Moritz Both wrote:
> >
> > > Hi after 2 years of struggling with this crap and getting no where, can
> > > anyone help me figure out what is causing these errors.
> >
> > > it seems to be random doesn't matter which tape or drive I use they all
> > > do it. even changing machine and scsi controllers doesn't fix the
> > > problem.
> >
> > > is it something I'm doing wrong.
> >
> > Which operating system do you use? Which version/s? Which tape devices
> > have you tried? Which SCSI controllers? Did the other tape backup
> > product work?
>
> oh yeah sorry, its running on Debian Linux (sid) using amanda 2.4.2p2
> the tape drives are a Sony DDS3 SDT9000 and a HP DDS4 Autoloader.
> the scsi controllers tried are a adaptec aha1510 and an adaptec 2940.
> the other tape backup product was NovaNet8 and it worked.
>
> > To me this looks like the tape device can't read the files on tape
> > ("I/O error") and tar complains as a result of that ("Unexpected
> > EOF"). afaik amverify tends to mix up error message order in its
> > reports.
>
> I really don't know where to go from here, I've tried brand new tapes as
> well.
>
> since I sent the message I've moved the HP tape drive to another machine
> which has a symbios logic scsi controller and different scsi cable. and
> get the same problems. its even on a seperate channel on the scsi
> controller.
Maybe I missed your earlier post.
What error messages are you seeing?
What happens if you try just "dd"ing a big file to a tape
then reading it back in the same way, and checking
its integrity?
--
Dan Wilder
