Thanks Bruce, but that made no difference.
On 4/9/07, Bruce Ferrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
sounds like it's rewinding at the end of the first block. try using nst0
Greg Freemyer wrote:
> All,
>
> My IBM Ultrium LTO-1 drive under 10.1 can't read what it wrote under
> 8.2? Any ideas?
>
> === Details
> I was tasked with cataloging a bunch of 2 year old tapes this morning.
> I know that tape server works because we routinely write tar tapes
> and read them back in to verify them.
>
> When I try to read the 2 year old tapes on my Opensuse 10.1 tape
> server, I just keep getting the first block of data over and over and
> the tape is not advancing.
>
> ie. "dd bs=256k if=/dev/st0 of=/tmp/dd.out" runs for a long time but
> the dd.out file is garbage.
>
> I just finished putting a blank harddrive in the same computer and
> installing SUSE 8.2 from DVD. (8.2 was used to create the tapes). I
> had to manually create a /etc/stinit.def file, but apparently I got
> close enough because I can read the tapes now with the 8.2 kernel on
> the DVDs.
>
> Does anyone have any idea why I can't read these tapes with a 10.1 kernel?
>
> FYI: I also did a rescue boot to 10.2 and tried. Failed to read
> accurately there as well.
>
> Thanks
> Greg
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