Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 12 Apr 2001 17:43:33 +0200 (CEST) | From | Gérard Roudier <> | Subject | Re: SCSI Tape Corruption - update |
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On Thu, 12 Apr 2001 lomarcan@tin.it wrote:
> Still experimenting with my SDT-9000... tried connecting it to another > controller > (2940AU in place of 2904, sorry but I've only Adaptec stuff :). Same > problem. > Tried with another tape (even with an old DDS-2 tape). Same. Even tried > another > cable/removing the CDWR drive from the bus. > > It seems that the tape is written incorrectly. I wrote some large file > (300MB) > and read it back four time. The read copies are all the same. They differ > from the original only in 32 consecutive bytes (the replaced values SEEM > random). Of course, 32 bytes in 300MB tar.gz files are TOO MUCH to be > accepted :)
A similar problem has been reported under Linux/PPC a couple of weeks ago using a sym53c875 controller. In this case, kernel 2.2 was fine.
> Now I'll build some old 2.2 kernel to try...
If 2.2 is ok with your tape, a software error in 2.4 gets very likely, in my opinion.
Gérard.
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