On Friday 10 September 2004 07:59, Gabor Melis wrote: > After heavy googling I tried passing tar the block size explicitly with -b > (for both invocations). It is not until '-b 216' that tar finally manages > to read back the archive. I can find no documentation for the Quantum > DLT7000 that mentions a minimum block size and since it is a critical > server I'm a bit worried about this magic number that _seems_ to make it > work.
> # cat /proc/scsi/scsi > Attached devices: > Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 > Vendor: MegaRAID Model: LD0 RAID5 39760R Rev: 2.48 > Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 > Host: scsi0 Channel: 04 Id: 06 Lun: 00 > Vendor: PE/PV Model: 1x6 SCSI BP Rev: 1.1 > Type: Processor ANSI SCSI revision: 02 > Host: scsi0 Channel: 05 Id: 06 Lun: 00 > Vendor: QUANTUM Model: DLT7000 Rev: 2561 > Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Are you sure the raid controller will support tape drives? Strictly speaking, it should, but many do not like anything but disks attached to them. Have you asked Dell? Is your tape SE, HVD or LVD? Are you sure the cabling is correct? Termination? -- _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ ( t | i | m | @ | i | t | . | k | p | t | . | c | c ) \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ GPG key fingerprint = 1DEE CD9B 4808 F608 FBBF DC21 2807 D7D3 09CA 85BF -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
