On Monday 13 December 2004 11:02, Jon Hill wrote: > Hi > > I am running Core 2 with a SCSI Controller INITIO INIC 1060P and HP DDS-4 > C5683A DAT drive. I really want to try and get my backup routines sorted > for Christmas but I am struggling with some errors when creating TAR > archives. > > the result from mt -f /dev/st0 status is > SCSI 2 tape drive: > File number=-1, block number=-1, partition=0. > Tape block size 0 bytes. Density code 0x0 (default). > Soft error count since last status=0 > General status bits on (50000): > DR_OPEN IM_REP_EN > > I am getting a lot of the following error messages. > > tar: /dev/st0: Cannot read: Input/output error > tar: Skipping to next header > tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers > tar: /dev/st0: Cannot read: Input/output error > > On previous attempts (before I manually set the block size), I was seeing a > lot of these > st0: error 70000 (sugg. bt 0x0, driver bt 0x0, host bt 0x7). inia100:13 0 > > Can anyone give me some pointers that might help solve this? > 1) what are the permissions on the device? 2) sample tar command? -- I have found that sometimes hw and sw compression at the same time is an issue, and generally use one or the other.
