Re: [Dump-devel] Weird problems with latest dump and exabyte

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

Denis Gerasimov wrote:
> 
> Folks,
> I have upgraded from 0.4b4 to 0.4b13 and now I have a weird write error. I
> use exabyte 8505XL drives (tried with two of them). The error:
>   DUMP: write error 2620 blocks into volume 1
>   DUMP: Do you want to restart?: ("yes" or "no")

I never seen this kind of error before (at least nobody reported it), so I'll 
go towards a hardware problem (or a software one, concerning the driver for
your tape drive).

Just a few thoughts:
	- what are you using as dump's command line?
	- do you have the same problem when dumping into /dev/null or a /tmp file?
	- the exabyte is this a SCSI tape drive, and do you modprobe the driver
	before starting to dump (or you have the module inserted automatically
	when accessing to the tape).
	- any driver messages in /var/log/messages ?
	- is this a SMP system?
	- does a tar into that tape drive works?

I made a list of questions on the web page
(http://dump.sourceforge.net/REPORTING-BUGS),
could you please report the versions of your software as indicated on that 
page.

Maybe that will give me some supplementar clues...

Stelian.
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