On Tue, 15 Jan 2002 at 2:24pm, Brad Groshok wrote > [2:22pm chip]# dd if=/dev/rmt/0bn of=image1 bs=32k skip=1 > dd: cannot skip past end-of-file > > I'm doing everything possible to not tell myself there is nothing on this > tape. I admit I didn't run verify, but amanda reports from when it was > working reported everything normal, took several hours to backup stuff (as > expected)
Are you sure the tape drive is actually working? Are there any error messages in the system logs? Can you read another tape with it? If you do 'mt rewind; mt eod', does it take as long as you think it should? Something very odd is going on here. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
