Whoa, whoa, whoa. Before you guys get too carried away, how do you know that nothing has been written on the tape? /dev/st0 will automatically rewind after access is completed so everytime you complete writing to the device the tape will rewind to the beginning and it will look like the tape hasn't moved. Try to untar from the tape to a temporary directory and see if there is anything there or simply cat from the tape to a tar file, or do a 'tar tvf /dev/st0' and see if there is a table of contents on the tape.
If it's really important that the tape not rewind after writing to it then use device /dev/nst0 instead of /dev/st0. Do a 'man st' for more information about SCSI tape devices. Hope this helps. On Tue, 2002-05-28 at 09:37, Ray Curtis wrote: > >>>>> "jz" == Jianping Zhu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > jz> Thank you for your advice but the tape is still not working. > jz> When I try to back up /etc to tape. It seems the process has been finish > jz> from sever screen. but when I pull out the tape, I found that the tape > jz> still in original staus, it did not wind. > jz> Folloing is the info from dmesg > > jz> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > jz> [root@Milo /root]# dmesg|grep 'st0' > jz> A#tached scsi tape st0 at scsi1, channel 0, id 6,slun 0 > jz> st0: Block limits 1 - 16777215 bytes. > jz> st0: Error with sense data: Current st09:00: sense key Unit Attentiin > jz> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > jz> Can you give me some more suggestion? > jz> Thank you very much. > > > OK, this sounds like a media or hardware problem. > Have you tried cleaning the heads and or using a different tape ? > > It appears that the software is fine and you are communicating with > the drive. > > > -- > Ray Curtis > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ccux.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- Carl D. Blake Director of Engineering Boeckeler Instruments, Inc. 4650 S. Butterfield Dr. Tucson, AZ 85714 Phone: 520-745-0001 FAX: 520-745-0004 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] .com _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
