by Hello. I am trying to get a Quantum dlt7000 drive working under my redhat
7.1 install. However, In order to get tar to backup the system, I have to
set block size and density to 0. If its not set to 0, then I get the
following error:
tar: Removing leading `/' from member names
usr/lib/edge/
usr/lib/edge/tmp/
usr/lib/edge/tmp/linux-cdrecord-1.8.tar
tar: /dev/st0: Wrote only 0 of 10240 bytes
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
Once, I set those options it backs up fine, but it changes the device status
to:
SCSI 2 tape drive:
File number=0, block number=0, partition=0.
Tape block size 3289136 bytes. Density code 0x69 (unknown to this mt).
Soft error count since last status=0
General status bits on (41010000):
BOT ONLINE IM_REP_EN
But when i try to read the device to get a tar listing I get:
tar: /dev/st0: Cannot read: Value too large for defined data type
tar: At beginning of tape, quitting now
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
So, I reset the blksize and density to 0 and try to read the tape and get:
tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Skipping to next header
usr/lib/edge/lists/edge.err
usr/lib/edge/lists/edge.err.last
usr/lib/edge/lists/edge.summary
usr/lib/edge/database/
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
Anyone have and idea what i am doing wrong here ?!? Please help.