Yeah sounds like a good idea for an old PC but this thing was 2 days old
when the tape started doing this (also after linux was installed) and only
happens on cpio..
I use tapeware (www.tapeware.com free download) for backups now (perfect
porting from windows to linux I must add) and works like a charm..
Problem is either cpio causes problems with the dat/scsi drivers or
something.... or God knows what.
-----Original Message-----
From: David Zverina [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, May 19, 2000 5:09 PM
To: George Vieira; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [SLUG] CPIO failing
1. Buy cleaning tape.
2. Clean the tape drive.
That's what fixed up my problem which had the exact symptoms you describe.
It too started intermittent and then ended up being all the time. I was
tearing my hair out before I found out the answer in deja news.
(www.deja.com)
Good luck!
Dave.
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David Zverina
Alt Key Pty. Ltd.
http://www.altkey.com
PO Box 3121, Parramatta, 2124, Australia
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of George Vieira
> Sent: Friday, 19 May 2000 15:42
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: [SLUG] CPIO failing
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm getting weird problems with our Sony 9000 tape drive on linux.
>
> We do a :
> find DIR1 DIR2 -print | cpio -ocvB -O /dev/st0
> and we get:
> Found end of tape. Load next tape and press RETURN.
> cpio: write error: No medium found
>
> all we find is it starts up the tape and then ejects it. happening on all
> tapes all the time.
> This was happening before on my old backup scipts on when I used the nst0
> device but now it's all the time..
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> thanks,
> George Vieira
> Network Administrator
> Citadel Computer Systems P/L
> http://www.citadelcomputer.com.au
>
>
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