On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, Gary Nielson wrote:
I had this happen with a older scsi tape drive, sometimes if
"something funny happend"TM the drive would not move the tape around, and
would either swallow the command and do nothing ( ie go back and kill the
tar session ) or would make out as if it was doing it, and in 3 seconds
"backup" a 1gig partition to tape :) Very nice if it was actualy doing
something.
A reboot reset things. No idea what's wrong with it - but I suspect it's
just a flaky hardware issue.
> This morning, as is my usual drill, I ran a script to backup many of my
> directories to tape. It's tar cvf /dev/rst0 /home. Works great every time.
> This morning, however, I ran this command and nothing happened, the tape
> drive didn't do anything to indicate it had received the command and
> I got tar error messages to the effect that /dev/rst0 did not understand the
> command and then tar exited. I tried it several times and then finally
> powered off. Upon powering up again, it worked like a charm again, as if
> nothing had ever gone wrong. I am backing up right now.
>
> Does anyone have any idea as to what might have happened and what I might
> need to watch out for?
>
> Any help appreciated.
>
> Gary
> Charlotte NC
>
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