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["Greg Freemyer" <greg.freemyer@xxxxxxxxx>]

All,

My IBM Ultrium LTO-1 drive under 10.1 can't read what it wrote under
8.2?  Any ideas?

=== Details
I was tasked with cataloging a bunch of 2 year old tapes this morning.
I know that tape server works because we routinely write tar tapes
and read them back in to verify them.

When I try to read the 2 year old tapes on my Opensuse 10.1 tape
server, I just keep getting the first block of data over and over and
the tape is not advancing.

ie. "dd bs=256k if=/dev/st0 of=/tmp/dd.out" runs for a long time but
the dd.out file is garbage.

I just finished putting a blank harddrive in the same computer and
installing SUSE 8.2 from DVD.  (8.2 was used to create the tapes).  I
had to manually create a /etc/stinit.def file, but apparently I got
close enough because I can read the tapes now with the 8.2 kernel on
the DVDs.

Does anyone have any idea why I can't read these tapes with a 10.1 kernel?

FYI: I also did a rescue boot to 10.2 and tried.  Failed to read
accurately there as well.

Thanks
Greg
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Greg Freemyer
The Norcross Group
Forensics for the 21st Century
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