Hi all,
I recently came into possession of a DDS-2 12 tape autoloader, and I've
got the loader part working fine, thanks to mtx (http://mtx.badtux.net/).
I can write to the tapes, and read/verify what's written. When tar
gets to the end of the archive though, it says:
tar: /dev/st0: Cannot read: Input/output error
several times then exits. This only happens at the end of the archive,
which is not the end of the tape -- the tapes are 4GB and I'm only
storing around 600MB for now. It's not one tape either, I've tried half
a dozen tapes with the same result. I've also tried erasing the tapes
before writing, but that didn't change anything.
My tar command is 'tar -cpWf /dev/st0 .'
I'm guessing that it's something to do with the archive not being a
multiple of the tape block size. I've tried using tar's -B switch but
it doesn't make any difference.
Does anyone have any suggestions for the cause and, more importantly,
how to fix it?
Thanks,
John
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