Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 09 May 2001 17:33:36 +0900 | From | Ishikawa <> | Subject | Re: SCSI Tape corruption - update |
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For comparison purposes,
I use stock kernel 2.4.4. Use scsi tape support as module. Tape drive is HP c1539 (aka 1533a) dds-2. This drive is on the scsi chain of Tekram dc390, tmscsim driver (used as module). Hardware compression is enabled.
Under this setup,
tar cvbf 20 /dev/st0 large_directory
works perfectly, and I can read it back without problem.
What software do you use for writing to tape?
Or maybe the problem is in the latest -ac tree only?
(HP has a software that checks the hardware installation and drive health. The software runs on Windows, and it supports firmware upgrade, simple drive self-check, read/write check, etc. Highly recommended. Obviously, the software is meant to help the HP tech support. It generates a support ticket with the internal state of the firmware media recoverable error statistics history and the like.
If the manufacturer of your tape drive has a similar test software, you might want to check the hardware using the vendor software.)
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