On 12/22/05, daniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've having considerable trouble with writing to a simple tape drive and I'm > hoping that someone here has some experience with it: > > I'm using a Quantum Superloader, so I've installed mtx to manipulate the > tapes. This part works without issue. > > Load the tape from slot #3: > > # mtx -f /dev/sg2 load 3 > > Now that it's in the drive, I try to tar something onto it: > > # cd / > # tar cf /dev/st0 bin/ > bin/ > bin/bash > <a VERY long wait> > tar: /dev/st0: Cannot write: Input/output error > tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
Oy, it has been a _really_ long time since I used tape, so this is all from memory, but I think you need to set the block size of the tape drive and tar to make them agree. Try: mt -f /dev/st0 setblk 0 tar -cf /dev/st0 -b64 bin/ The above should set the tape drive to use variable size blocks, and then use tar to write 32k blocks to it. That is if I remember my mt commands correctly... -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
