FC3: ide tape problem with kernel 2.6.10

[Craig Goodyear]

Rick Stevens wrote:
> 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

Thanks for the reply.  I'm sorry I didn't make the original post more 
clear.  I am using the above commands to try to list or extract the 
contents of the tar files on tape.  I don't have any trouble extracting 
the contents of tar files that were made with the previous 2.6.9 kernel. 
  The problem exist when using tar with the 2.6.10 kernel.

Craig