I have an emergency call from a german customer, the goal is to restore files from an Ultrium drive.
Suse 10.2, amanda 2.5.2p1, tar (GNU tar) 1.15.1 ... I get no results with amrestore, no scsi-errors ... positioning via "mt fsf" fails $ mt -f /dev/nst0 fsf mt: /dev/nst0: Input/output error and reading files with dd as well, I am only able to read the first archive, the second fails: $ dd if=/dev/nst0 of=file.2 bs=32k skip=1 dd: warning: working around lseek kernel bug for file (/dev/nst0) of mt_type=0x72 -- see <sys/mtio.h> for the list of types dd: reading `/dev/nst0': Input/output error 0+0 records in 0+0 records out 0 bytes (0 B) copied, 0.00931095 s, 0.0 kB/s The first file only contains binary data, I am unable to read it with any tools (dump/zip/restore/tar/ ... the DLE should have been dumped without sw-compression, the drive does hw-compression. Does anyone know about that lseek bug? Any help welcome, thanks, Stefan
