Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 28 Feb 2001 10:34:45 -0500 | From | Mike Dresser <> | Subject | Re: 2.2.18 IDE tape problem, with ide-scsi |
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I ran into a problem with tar and taper, with blocking, so what i do is backup a 128k file of emptiness, to guarantee that the last block of the real backup fit.
> Restoring a tape typically then says 'gunzip: unexpected end of > file'. My guess was that the last fractional block of 32k wasn't > flushed to the drive. Of course, if I'm having media troubles > indicated by the first error above, then something else could be > happening, I suppose. But does erroneous block flushing in the driver > sound like a possibility?
Mike Dresser
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