Well, you rewound it first, right? (mt -f /dev/st0 rewind)
Are you sure your drive can read their tape?
It's possible the tape is just unreadable (perhaps by any tape drive). I
would try retensioning the tape 3-4 times before I gave up.
-Alan
----- Original Message -----
From: Nigel Trivass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2000 6:26 AM
Subject: using dd to copy files from tape drive
: Hi,
:
: I'm trying to extract the contents of a 4MM tape using dd.
:
: The tape contains backup data from a Windows NT machine. I am waiting for
: confirmation of the backup software used.
:
: Can I use dd to extract the contents of the tape?
:
: I've tried using this command
:
: dd if=/dev/st0 of=tapedata
:
: But LINUX responds
:
: dd: /dev/st0: Input/output error
: 0+0 records in
: 0+0 records out
:
: I checked that all was well with the tape drive by successfully extracting
: data from another tape containing linux backup data.
:
: We are using redhat 6, and an internal 4MM tape.
:
: Can anybody help?
:
: Cheers,
:
: Nigel
:
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