Antonio Diaz Diaz <[email protected]> wrote: > Paul Eggert wrote: > >>we are getting io errors. > > > > Possibly that's because the tape is bad. > > If this is the case and the cause are media errors, you can try reading > the tape with ddrescue[1]. > > [1] http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html
Most read problems with tapes on Linux systems are caused by bad drivers that do not put the drive into the right mode. Most tapes are written in blocked mode but Linux usually tries to read them as unblocked. Jörg -- EMail:[email protected] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [email protected] (uni) [email protected] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily
