2 Jul
2005
2 Jul
'05
9:03 p.m.
Curt @ Atari Museum declared on Saturday 02 July 2005 10:31 pm:
Sallem,
What kind of backups are they? Are they perhaps BSD Linux
using the level0 backup method? What version of Linux are you
currently running to do tape backup/restores? If it is a level0 (I'm
rusting, so someone correct me if I'm mistaken)
Uhm, I really doubt that Sellam is trying to do backups from his Linux
system to 9-track tapes... I'm sure that he's trying to read tapes
written on something else (like maybe a PDP11 or something) on the Linux
box.
Sellam, are you sure that your tape drive works, and that the SCSI chain
is properly terminated? An unterminated SCSI chain may be good enough
to pass forward/rewind commands, but have problems with data transfers
long enough to pass data to/from the tape.
If the SCSI chain is intact and terminated properly (you could stick
another device, maybe a SCSI HDD, on the chain to test that), then i'd
suspect the drive as being bad.
Pat
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