Charlie Brady wrote:
> Sent: Friday, February 16, 2001 9:50 AM
> To: Darrell May
> Cc: 'Orville Carter'; e-smith-Dev
> Subject: RE: [e-smith-devinfo] Tape Backup
> An even simpler test is probably a good idea. The less layers
> of software
> the better, if you are trying to test hardware.
>
> mt -f /dev/st0 rewind
> dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/st0 bs=1024k
> dd of=/dev/st0 of=/dev/null bs=1024k
>
> If you get an I/O error at anything other then end of tape
> during either
> dd operation, you have a problem with the tape or tape drive.
>
Charlie, curious results from these commands?
[root@e-smith /root]# mt -f /dev/st0 rewind
[root@e-smith /root]# dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/st0 bs=1024k
dd: writing `/dev/st0': Input/output error
0+1 records in
0+0 records out
[root@e-smith /root]# dd of=/dev/st0 of=/dev/null bs=1024k
0+1 records in
0+1 records out
Darrell
