Re: [Dump-users] RE: Dump HOWTO

[Bernhard E. <be...@be...>]

Stelian Pop wrote:
[...]
> > > Try to run a /sbin/dump 0ab 32 /tmp/. Maybe it helps...
> >
> > I already tried it, didn't help then, if I remember correctly. Now it
> > works. ??
> 
> Well, I don't remember having changed something about that for a long
> time... Maybe you tried it with a very old version of dump/restore,
> and haven't tried since then again ?

No, some weeks ago I used 0.4b16.

> > Let's have a try:
> > # /sbin/restore rb 10
> >
> > With "-b 10", restore works well reading a tape witten by "dump 0a
> > /tmp". Maybe a bug in restore to figure out the tape's blocksize?
> 
> Sure. I'll take a look and will contact you later if I cannot reproduce
> this here...

It happened to me using an old Seagate DDS-2 and a HP DDS-2 drive (HP
C1533A) on RedHat 6.1 boxes using kernel 2.2.14 to 2.2.16. The Seagate
was connected to an Adaptec card using the aic7xxx driver, the HP is
connected to a Dawicontrol DC2974 (AMD chip) using the tmscsim driver.

A DDS-3 drive (HP C1539A or C1557A) on another RHL 6.1 box works well
without telling a blocksize to restore. (Adaptec on-board using aic7xxx)