Re: [Dump-users] st driver's buffer corrupting multivolume dumps

[Kenneth P. <sh...@se...>]

--On Friday, November 25, 2005 12:52 PM -0600 Brent Busby 
<br...@ke...> wrote:

> I've seen lots of posts in the dump mailing lists from people with this
> problem, and elsewhere, but no solutions, and it doesn't seem so much a
> dump problem as a general tape drive problem, since it's the SCSI tape
> driver that seems to create this scenario, and it would probably happen
> just the same with tar or anything that tries to span data across tape
> volumes on Linux.

While I have no solution, I'd suggest checking with the linux-scsi mailing 
list, as someone there with a good understanding of the st driver may know 
what's going on.

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Let us know what you find. It sounds like an interesting problem.