Re: tar backup ok but restore errors w/ scsi dat dds2

2005-10-03 Thread Ralph Eagle
board video to a GeForce MX4000 8x AGP. Said the magic word: Abra-ca-pocus! and the problem dissapeared. Ralph Eagle Kubinski Business Systems -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: tar backup ok but restore errors w/ scsi dat dds2

2005-09-28 Thread Ralph Eagle
;m dealing with a hardware issue. Ralph Eagle Kubinski Business Systems -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: tar backup ok but restore errors w/ scsi dat dds2

2005-09-28 Thread Ralph Eagle
6DX266 and 2- Debian Linux on a PII in testing), they work fine. This all leads me to think that the problem is the environment (mobo). Maybe this particular combination of mobo/scsi? I'll let you know what happens. Ralph Eagle Kubinski Business Systems -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

Re: tar backup ok but restore errors w/ scsi dat dds2

2005-09-28 Thread Ralph Eagle
it should be a nice and steady/constant whine ... Sounds normal to me - although it is a DAT drive and pretty quiet, not like the old QIC 1/4in or Travan drives. I think I've exhausted my resources attacking this from the software side. Will do a little mobo swap and see what happens.

Re: tar backup ok but restore errors w/ scsi dat dds2

2005-09-27 Thread Ralph Eagle
. When I create the tar archive using: tar cvf /dev/st0 /usr/kbmosas there are no errors reported by tar. The problem is trying to read the data back from the archive just made. c ya alvin Ralph Eagle Kubinski Business Systems -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subj

Re: tar backup ok but restore errors w/ scsi dat dds2

2005-09-27 Thread Ralph Eagle
you're not hitting the 2Gb limit (with some tar) are you? Nope... while trying to debug the problem, I've been using groups of files in the 2 to 10 MB range. And, when I put the card and tape drive into the other boxes (SCO 486 and Linux PII) I used the same set of data for testing. -- T

tar backup ok but restore errors w/ scsi dat dds2

2005-09-26 Thread Ralph Eagle
I think this might be a hardware compatibility problem, but you be the judge. Using tar, I can write a tape archive to the scsi dat drive (tar cvf /dev/st0 /usr/kbmosas) without any errors but when I try to read the tape back (tar tvf /dev/st0 or tar xvf /dev/st0), I get the following messages i