Can the error appear through a bad termination of the scsi bus???
Bad termination can cause just about anything, so yes.
$ mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind
$ mt -f /dev/nst0 fsf 1
$ dd if=3D/dev/nst0 bs=3D32k count=3D1 /tmp/block.0
$ ls -l /tmp/block.0
$ head -4 /tmp/block.0
The result of
It's looking like that tape is bad. Does this happen on all your tapes
or just this one? If it's all the tapes, I'd start worrying about the drive
or controller.
Can the error appear through a bad termination of the scsi bus???
Here's another sequence to try:
$ mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind
$