Thanks for the responses. The LTO5 tape drive is a brand new one.
Though it is possible for a new drive to be faulty, but we did test writing data onto a new LTO4 and reading it back. That works okay. So unlikely a drive fault. As to the format, not sure. I was hoping the ddrescue can give some clues, but apparently not. Peter -----Original Message----- From: Antonio Diaz Diaz [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 15 June 2012 19:39 To: Chiu, Peter (STFC,RAL,RALSP) Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Bug-tar] tar: unable to read LTO4 tapes on a LTO5 drive using tar [email protected] wrote: > # Rescue Logfile. Created by GNU ddrescue version 1.16 # Command line: > ddrescue /dev/st0 /tmp/lto/tar logfile # current_pos current_status > 0x11E6E9E8000 / > # pos size status > 0x00000000 0x0416D600 - > 0x0416D600 0x007E4600 / > 0x04951C00 0x0381BC00 - > 0x0816D800 0x027E4600 / > ... It seems ddrescue can't read anything, but the tape is giving errors at an astounding speed. I guess it is a format or drive problem, not a media problem. Mark: ddrescue does work for tapes. Regards, Antonio. -- Scanned by iCritical.
