On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Justin Clacherty wrote:
> >From what I read into Linus's e-mail I don't think he's intending to fix
> it...If I remember correctly (been a while since I read it) he said "just
> use tar, there is no guarantee that future versions of the kernel will
> work".
>
> > Jeffrey Ross
>From what I read into Linus's e-mail I don't think he's intending to fix
it...If I remember correctly (been a while since I read it) he said "just
use tar, there is no guarantee that future versions of the kernel will
work".
> Jeffrey Ross wrote:
>
> > Simply put, I'm using an Exabyte 8505XL tape
On Wednesday 29 January 2003 22:12, Stephen Carville uttered:
> Ouch! The machine I do tape backups on is running RH 7.2 with a
> 2.4.18 kernel. Is this problem limited to 2.4.18? If I back up to
> an earlier kernel will I avoid this?
BRU folks state that a 2.4.18-10 kernel is ok (from Red Hat)
On Wednesday 29 January 2003 01:13 pm, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Wednesday 29 January 2003 12:56, Jeffrey Ross wrote:
> > and works correctly (it never reaches EOT and ends based upon byte
> > count). Kinda wastes the compression ability.
> >
> > I have upgraded to dump 0.4b32 with the same result
Jeffrey Ross wrote:
Simply put, I'm using an Exabyte 8505XL tape drive and dump fails upon
reaching the EOT.
Some system background...
Kernel 2.4.20-ac2
IDE Hard disk and IDE CDRom
There was a posting by Linux himself, saying NOT to use dump with the
2.4 kernel, because it would at some poin
On Wednesday 29 January 2003 13:32, Jeffrey Ross wrote:
> Is it fair to assume the bug still exists in 2.4.20-ac2? suggestions
> for a patch, is one available?
Not a clue.
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Is it fair to assume the bug still exists in 2.4.20-ac2? suggestions
for a patch, is one available?
thanks
From: Jesse Keating <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Organization: j2Solutions
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: dump failing at EOT Date: Wed,
29 Jan 2003 13:13:19 -0800 Reply-To: [EMAIL PRO
On Wednesday 29 January 2003 12:56, Jeffrey Ross wrote:
> and works correctly (it never reaches EOT and ends based upon byte
> count). Kinda wastes the compression ability.
>
> I have upgraded to dump 0.4b32 with the same results.
>
> any help would be appreciated.
This is a known kernel problem
Simply put, I'm using an Exabyte 8505XL tape drive and dump fails upon
reaching the EOT.
Some system background...
Kernel 2.4.20-ac2
IDE Hard disk and IDE CDRom
scsi controller:
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:0d.0
ncr53c8xx: at PCI bus 0, device 13, functio
