This is a continuation of my earlier problem which still exists: Garbage in Amanda tape headers - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/amanda-users/message/36902.
So what I did was break down the problem to isolate the problem. I got a blank tape, wrote a file to it and read it back out. The file that was returned from the tape was corrupted with garbage in certain areas. I must be going insane! What would be the cause of this? Block sizes? Faulty tape drive? Faulty tape? SCSI related? Anyway, here are the details: 1. Created file1.txt with some random text. 2. Ran these commands. I don't know what the block size is suppose to be but I've tried many different ones which results in the same outcome. (I've also done this with tar...same results). > dd if=file1.txt of=/dev/st0 > dd if=/dev/st0 of=file2.txt > more file1.txt Jolie Files for Divorce from Thornton Thu Jul 18, 4:31 PM ET By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Oscar-winning actress Angelina Jolie has filed for divorce from her husband of two years, Billy Bob Thornton, according to court documents made public on Thursday. Representatives for Jolie, 27, could not immediately be reached for comment, but a spokesman for Thornton, 46, said the only comment from the actor-writer and musician was, "It's a sad thing." <snip> > more file2.txt Jolie Files for Divorce from Thornton Thu Jul 18, 4:31 PM ET By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Oscar-winning actress Angelina Jolie has filed for divorce from her husband of two years, Billy Bob Thornton, according to court documents made public on Thursday. Representatives for Jolie, 27, could not immedi`tdl ` `aa``d fb cmmedd$ `tp`oaeqe`$ fgp Thorltol, 46, said the only comment from the actor-writer and musician was, "It's a sad thing." <snip> > file file1.txt file1.txt: English text # note: I only mention this because with other files, # file2.txt was labeled as "ASCII text" > file file2.txt file2.txt: English text >diff file1.txt file2.txt Binary files file1.txt and file2.txt differ ---------------------------------------- H/W Specs: SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AHA-2940U2/W / 7890 (rev 01) HP SureStore 1559C DAT Autoloader Tape Drive DAT24x6e (DDS-3). HP DDS-3 C5708A 24GB tapes S/W Specs: Debian Linux 2.2.18pre21 dd (GNU fileutils) 4.0l Turned h/w compression off. Thanks, Terry __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Autos - Get free new car price quotes http://autos.yahoo.com
