Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 22 Aug 2000 23:32:59 +0300 (EET DST) | From | Kai Makisara <> | Subject | Re: an extra idetm for 2.4 TODO list |
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On Sat, 19 Aug 2000, Tigran Aivazian wrote:
> Hi Ted, > > Today I discovered that I can't backup more than 2.4G to a DDS-2 > tape using 2.4.0-test7-pre5. Rebooting back to 2.4.0-test1-ac18 works just > fine. Tried multiple tapes to make sure it's not a defective tape. > > Other devices (hard disk, cdwriter and zipdrive) on the same scsi bus work > fine. The adapter is "04 90 78 71" (Adaptec AHA-294x / AIC-7871 (rev 03)). > > The tape drive is: > > Vendor: ARCHIVE Model: Python 04687-XXX Rev: 6610 > > Problem is reproducible. After 2.4G tar fails with EIO and I get some SCSI > sense error stuff in the log (ok, I should have saved it, I know). > I would really like to see these error messages and the command you used when you saw the problem. I have now successfully written 3.5 GB in variable block mode and fixed block mode with 1024 kB blocks. I addition to this I have done a backup of over 5 GB. This was with test7-pre6, aic-7850, and HP DDS-2 drive.
So, there does not seem to be a categorical write limit of 2.4 GB for SCSI tapes and I can't reproduce your problem without more information.
Kai
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