Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 29 Mar 1999 10:50:10 -0800 | From | Steven Roberts <> | Subject | Re: SCSI tape |
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"Richard B. Johnson" wrote: > > Hello! > Don't know when it started, but recent versions of linux have a problem > writing the last file to a tape when using `tar` (yes I know about > --block-compress when compressing). > > I threw away a lot of 8 mm tapes that were good until I found this out. > > `cd / ; tar -clf /dev/st0` will complete okay. However.... > `cd /new/file/system ; tar -xf /dev/st0` will fail with 'sense data extra > data not valid' and a SCSI bus reset, on the last file in the directory > tree, no matter how large the tree. > > Doing `cp /dev/zero /dev/st0` works, and `cp /dev/st0 /dev/null` also > works with no errors. > > A work-around of `mkdir /z ; `cp /dev/zero /z/foo ^C` to make a dummy > last directory with a junk file in it works to be able to recover > an otherwise perfect directory tree. I believe the EOF isn't written > anymore. > > Cheers, > Dick Johnson hmmm.... scsi tape works fine here.
I have a archive 250MB at work running 2.2.3 using /dev/st0 and all is fine. (InitIO based card)
At home I have a AIWA NS20 running of a Adaptec 1542CF using /dev/nst0 and everything runs fine.
both using tar's (tar -cvf /dev/tape roughly)
Steve
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