I use tar frequently to backup lots of machines on a LAN, and generally there are no problems except when writing to the tape drive. In fact I have two of the same tape drive on two different machines, they are Seagate TapeStor ATAPI 4G drives. I've had the drives choke on large files, typically over 5M. They choke more often when I use the z option to tar. And when I try to backup an nfs mounted partition it always dies and locks up with an I/O error, but not necessarily on large files, it seems to choke at random here. I have plenty of tapes, I don't think it's a bad tape problem, and it happens on both drives. I don't think it's a tar problem since I can backup to a hard drive with no problems. Is this some kind of timing issue with the drive? Here are the error messages: Nov 23 14:33:22 gilmour kernel: ide-tape: hdc <-> ht0, 600KBps, 14*26kB buffer, 2600kB pipeline, 190ms tDSC Nov 23 14:42:32 gilmour kernel: ide-tape: ht0: I/O error, pc = a, key = 2, asc = 4, ascq = 2 Nov 23 14:42:34 gilmour last message repeated 200 times Nov 23 14:42:34 gilmour kernel: ide-tape: ht0: I/O error, pc = 10, key = 2, asc = 4, ascq = 2 Nov 23 14:42:34 gilmour kernel: ide-tape: Couldn't write a filemark Nov 23 14:42:34 gilmour kernel: ide-tape: ht0: I/O error, pc = 1, key = 2, asc = 4, ascq = 2 Nov 23 14:55:27 gilmour kernel: ide-tape: ht0: I/O error, pc = 34, key = 3, asc = 31, ascq = 0 Nov 23 14:55:27 gilmour kernel: ide-tape: ht0: I/O error, pc = 1, key = 3, asc = 31, ascq = 0 Nov 23 14:55:27 gilmour kernel: ide-tape: ht0: I/O error, pc = 1, key = 3, asc = 31, ascq = 0 Nov 23 14:55:35 gilmour kernel: ide-tape: ht0: I/O error, pc = 34, key = 3, asc = 31, ascq = 0 /**********************************/ /* Eric H. Majzoub */ /* Graduate Researcher */ /* Washington University */ /* Department of Physics */ /* Campus Box 1105 */ /* One Brookings Drive */ /* St. Louis, MO 63130 */ /* */ /* email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] */ /* phone: (314) 935-6379 */ /* fax: same */ /**********************************/ -- To unsubscribe: mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
