Re: [Dump-users] dump spontaneously stopped working

[Stelian P. <st...@po...>]

On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 04:58:04PM -0600, Jon N. Brelie wrote:

[...]
> I can issue mt commands
> that function until I try them after a failed dump operation.  Then they
> no longer work.  Granted, I've only tried rewind, retension and rewoffl,
> so it could still be a drive issue.  I plan on calling Dell to see if they
> can send me yet another drive to try out, as the one they sent was
> refurbished.
> 
> 	Does anyone have any other ideas for me to try?  Does any of the
> above info trigger a red flag for anyone?
[...]

Are you able to read the tape using a simple dd ? Like in:
	mt rewind
	dd if=/dev/st0 of=/tmp/test bs=10k

I suspect this will behave exactly the same way as dump showing that
the problem is at the kernel (or hardware) level. Contacting the
tape driver maintainer (Kai Makisara) directly is the best way to
proceed in this case...

Stelian.
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