thanks, Antonio, I have downloaded ddrescue, and invoked this command:
ddrescue /dev/st0 /tmp/lto/tar logfile The command is still running, and so far the logfile is showing: frost:/tmp/lto # cat logfile # Rescue Logfile. Created by GNU ddrescue version 1.16 # Command line: ddrescue /dev/st0 /tmp/lto/tar logfile # current_pos current_status 0x00000000 ? # pos size status 0x00000000 0x7FFFFFFFFFFFFFFF ? Not sure what it means. Peter ________________________________________ From: Antonio Diaz Diaz [[email protected]] Sent: 15 June 2012 16:05 To: [email protected] Cc: Chiu, Peter (STFC,RAL,RALSP) Subject: Re: [Bug-tar] tar: unable to read LTO4 tapes on a LTO5 drive using tar 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 Regards, Antonio. -- Scanned by iCritical.
