Upgrade to mt-st version .5b or greater. Older mt versions had known bugs particularly with positioning. I suggest scsi emulation + scsi tape rather than ATAPI tape. rgds, tim. ... hdd: HP COLORADO 20GB, ATAPI TAPE drive ... scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices scsi : 1 host. Vendor: HP Model: COLORADO 20GB Rev: 4.01 Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Detected scsi tape st0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 ... [17:12] abit:/etc/dump > mt -v mt-st v. 0.5b [17:12] abit:/etc/dump > tar --version | head -1 tar (GNU tar) 1.13.17 [17:12] abit:/etc/dump > ls -l /dev/tape lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Jul 14 2000 /dev/tape -> nst0 [17:12] abit:/etc/dump > mt status SCSI 2 tape drive: File number=0, block number=0, partition=0. Tape block size 512 bytes. Density code 0x47 (unknown to this mt). Soft error count since last status=0 General status bits on (41010000): BOT ONLINE IM_REP_EN [17:12] abit:/etc/dump > tar cvf /dev/tape /boot tar: Removing leading `/' from member names boot/ boot/kernel.h boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-12 boot/vmlinuz.prev boot/System.map.prev boot/linux-2.2.14-12 boot/linux-prev boot/linux-2.2.20p6ai boot/module-info boot/boot.b boot/chain.b ... [17:12] abit:/etc/dump > mt status SCSI 2 tape drive: File number=1, block number=0, partition=0. Tape block size 512 bytes. Density code 0x47 (unknown to this mt). Soft error count since last status=0 General status bits on (81010000): EOF ONLINE IM_REP_EN [17:12] abit:/etc/dump > mt tell At block 11421. [17:12] abit:/etc/dump > mt rewind [17:13] abit:/etc/dump > mt status SCSI 2 tape drive: File number=0, block number=0, partition=0. Tape block size 512 bytes. Density code 0x47 (unknown to this mt). Soft error count since last status=0 General status bits on (41010000): BOT ONLINE IM_REP_EN [17:13] abit:/etc/dump > mt tell At block 0. [17:13] abit:/etc/dump > tar tvf /dev/tape drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2001-06-25 22:21:52 boot/ -rw-r--r-- root/root 237 2001-05-03 23:04:36 boot/kernel.h -r--r--r-- root/root 589225 2000-05-09 05:43:45 boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-12 -rw-rw-r-- root/root 606292 2001-06-25 18:08:21 boot/vmlinuz.prev -rw-rw-r-- root/root 195903 2001-06-25 18:08:21 boot/System.map.prev lrwxrwxrwx root/root 0 2001-05-03 23:10:10 boot/linux-2.2.14-12 -> vmlinuz-2.2.14-12 lrwxrwxrwx root/root 0 2001-06-25 18:08:21 boot/linux-prev -> vmlinuz.prev lrwxrwxrwx root/root 0 2001-06-25 18:08:21 boot/linux-2.2.20p6ai -> vmlinuz-2.2.20p6ai-0625-18:08:09 lrwxrwxrwx root/root 0 2000-04-10 21:15:54 boot/module-info -> module-info-2.2.14-5.0 -rw-r--r-- root/root 4568 2000-02-02 14:03:10 boot/boot.b -rw-r--r-- root/root 612 2000-02-02 14:03:10 boot/chain.b ... [17:13] abit:/etc/dump > mt tell At block 11420. [17:14] abit:/etc/dump > mt status SCSI 2 tape drive: File number=0, block number=11420, partition=0. Tape block size 512 bytes. Density code 0x47 (unknown to this mt). Soft error count since last status=0 General status bits on (1010000): ONLINE IM_REP_EN [17:14] abit:/etc/dump > mt fsf 1 [17:14] abit:/etc/dump > mt tell At block 11421. [17:14] abit:/etc/dump > mt status SCSI 2 tape drive: File number=1, block number=0, partition=0. Tape block size 512 bytes. Density code 0x47 (unknown to this mt). Soft error count since last status=0 General status bits on (81010000): EOF ONLINE IM_REP_EN -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
