multivolume tape backup

Louis-Marius_Pineau at teluq.uquebec.ca Louis-Marius_Pineau at teluq.uquebec.ca
Wed Jun 16 18:13:21 UTC 2004


On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 12:53:30 -0500 (CDT)
dsavage at peaknet.net wrote:

> On Wednesday June 16, 2004 at 10:30 am
> Louis-Marius_Pineau at teluq.uquebec.ca wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am trying to read multivolume DAT tape that I wrote using tar -M on
> > redhat 9  on Fedora Core 2 and when I try to insert the second tape, it
> > tells me that the tape is not the one that is supposed to be. I tryed to
> > read the tapes back on Redhat 9 to see if I had some kind of tape failure
> > and I was able to read all of them without any trouble.
> >
> > The tape backup is a scsi one.
> >
> > Has anybody tried to do multivolume tar on FC2? I even tried with star
> > without any luck...
> 
> Louis,
> 
> What you are attempting is something on my "to do" list in the near future
> when I upgrade to FC2.
> 
> There was a major overhaul of SCSI code in the 2.6 kernel. Your problem
> sounds like there is a bug in the 2.6 driver for your host adapter. What
> card and tape drive are you using?
> 

Hi Robert,

I am using an adaptec aha2940uw and the tape backup is an  
HP Model: C1533A


Louis






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