Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 27 Feb 1999 21:50:04 -0500 | From | jim wiegand <> | Subject | Input/output error on tape |
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Hi all;
I had a script in 2.0.35 which backed up to tape with a 10240 byte block size using dd. Under 2.2.2, this does not work. Now, if I set the tape block size to 512, the following works:
tar -cvf - /etc | dd of=/dev/tape bs=10240 (??)
With the tape block size set to 10240, I get
dd: Input/output error
Now in the new st.c I did see some mention as to writes having to be a multiple of the block size but this behavior is puzzling me.
I need to have this work so I can move tapes between Linux and HP systems which need to see the 10240 block size. I got it the backup to run but haven't tried to actually read the tape.
Any ideas?
-jim jim wiegand wiegand@erols.com
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