On Wednesday June 16, 2004 at 10:30 am
Louis-Marius_Pineau@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to read multivolume DAT tape that I wrote using tar -M on
> redhat 9 on Fedora Core 2 and when I try to insert the second tape, it
> tells me that the tape is not the one that is supposed to be. I tryed to
> read the tapes back on Redhat 9 to see if I had some kind of tape failure
> and I was able to read all of them without any trouble.
>
> The tape backup is a scsi one.
>
> Has anybody tried to do multivolume tar on FC2? I even tried with star
> without any luck...
Louis,
What you are attempting is something on my "to do" list in the near future
when I upgrade to FC2.
There was a major overhaul of SCSI code in the 2.6 kernel. Your problem
sounds like there is a bug in the 2.6 driver for your host adapter. What
card and tape drive are you using?
--Doc
Robert G. (Doc) Savage, BSE(EE), CISSP, RHCE | Fairview Heights, IL
Fedora Core 1 kernel 2.4.22-1.2188.nptl on P-III/M IBM Thinkpad A22p
"Perfection is the enemy of good enough."
-- Admiral of the Fleet Sergei G. Gorshkov
