tar/tape

2004-02-25 Thread Dr Gavin Seddon
Hello, I have tried a completely new tape and now it appears I cannot write to it: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/zeros count=50 obs=1024 ibs=1024 50+0 records in 50+0 records out 51200 bytes transferred in 0.001761 seconds (29072577 bytes/sec) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# dd if=/tmp/zeros

Re: tar/tape

2004-02-24 Thread Dean Allen Provins
Gavin: On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 01:03:34PM +0100, Dr Gavin Seddon wrote: > Hello, > My tape drive is a hp 20 40 scsi drive. It will allow data to be > written to it. > > The output of mt -f /dev/st0 is: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/gseddon# mt -f /dev/st0 status > SCSI 2 tape drive: > File number

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2004-02-24 Thread Dr Gavin Seddon
-- Dr Gavin Seddon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> University of Manchester --- Begin Message --- Hello, My tape drive is a hp 20 40 scsi drive. It will allow data to be written to it. The output of mt -f /dev/st0 is: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/gseddon# mt -f /dev/st0 status SCSI 2 tape drive: File number=0,

Re: tar/tape

2004-02-23 Thread Dean Allen Provins
Gavin: On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 04:01:51PM +0100, Dr Gavin Seddon wrote: > I have tried mt setblk 0 > but now the error is: > > tar: /dev/st0: Wrote only 0 of 10240 bytes> tar: Error is not > recoverable: exiting now> > > Can anyone help? > Gavin. Your problem is curious as I too have no difficul

Re: tar/tape

2004-02-23 Thread Dr Gavin Seddon
I have tried mt setblk 0 but now the error is: > tar: /dev/st0: Wrote only 0 of 10240 bytes> tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now> Can anyone help? Gavin. -- Dr Gavin Seddon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> University of Manchester -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "un

Re: tar/tape

2004-02-22 Thread Tom Vier
> tar: /dev/tape: Wrote only 4096 of 10240 bytes > tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now try: mt setblk 0 here's the line i use to backup (change the -V label): tar -cv --totals -X /etc/tar_exclude.conf -g /var/state/tar/tape \ -L 3200 -V "host - level # - `da

tar/tape

2004-02-22 Thread Dr Gavin Seddon
Hello, When i try tar cvf /dev/tape to backup my machine, I get: tar: /dev/tape: Wrote only 4096 of 10240 bytes tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now The data should fit on a tape without compression, so I don't think it's a space problem. Can anyone suggest what to do? Also, What command