On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 09:50:31PM -0500, John R. Jackson wrote: > > Could you try this again and make sure you remove the /tmp files first. > > Also, try it with bs=64k. > > Did you try the above (bs=64k, remove the /tmp files)?
John, here it is: root@bast:~# mt -f /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target15/lun0/mtn setblk 0 root@bast:~# mt -f /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target15/lun0/mtn status SCSI 2 tape drive: File number=0, block number=0, partition=0. Tape block size 0 bytes. Density code 0x26 (DDS-4 or QIC-4GB). Soft error count since last status=0 General status bits on (41010000): BOT ONLINE IM_REP_EN root@bast:~# mt -f /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target15/lun0/mtn rewind root@bast:~# dd if=/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target15/lun0/mtn bs=64k of=/tmp/first-record count=1 0+1 records in 0+1 records out root@bast:~# mt -f /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target15/lun0/mtn rewind root@bast:~# dd if=/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target15/lun0/mtn bs=64k of=/tmp/first-file 0+8 records in 0+8 records out root@bast:~# ls -la /tmp/first-* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 32768 Feb 12 14:12 /tmp/first-file -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Feb 12 14:11 /tmp/first-record root@bast:~# and also I've probably said this before but, Thanks for your help.
