sounds like it's rewinding at the end of the first block. try using nst0 Greg Freemyer wrote:
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.
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