FC3: ide tape problem with kernel 2.6.10
Rick Stevens
rstevens at vitalstream.com
Fri Mar 4 00:11:07 UTC 2005
Craig Goodyear wrote:
> I have recently updated my FC3 kernel from 2.6.9-1.667 to
> 2.6.10-1.766_FC3. The system has had all available updates applied. I
> am using a Seagate STT8000A ATAPI tape drive for backup. I am loading
> the ide-scsi module. Prior to the update, tar and dump both worked
> without any problems using this tape drive.
>
> Since the kernel update, tar and dump appear to write the files to the
> tape drive: no error messages are generated during the write and the
> tape is positioned at the correct block following the write. However, I
> am not able to restore any of the backup files to the hard disk. Using
> tar, no errors are returned, and no files are restored. Using restore,
> the following error is generated: "restore: Tape is not a dump tape."
dump format and tar format are not the same thing. restore only
restores dump tapes. If you tried to restore a tar tape, then that
message makes absolute sense. To see what's on a tar tape:
mt -f /dev/st0 rewind
tar tf /dev/st0
To restore a tar tape with tar:
mt -f /dev/st0 rewind
tar xf /dev/st0
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