T. Horsnell wrote: ...
The problem appears to be that the tapes drop records when being written, but that this can be fixed by increasing the blocksize.
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Are you sure that it is during the write operation?
[root@ls1 ~]$ dd if=tapetest500K of=/dev/st1 bs=10240 ; dd if=/dev/st1 of=junk bs=10240 ; cmp tapetest500K junk 48+1 records in 48+1 records out 36+1 records in 36+1 records out tapetest500K junk differ: byte 215041, line 854
If you add another
dd if=/dev/st1 of=junk2 bs=10240
does that equal junk or is the error in another position?
The library has two drives, right? Is it a problem on both drives?
Mogens
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