[Gllug] [OTish] SureStore DAT24

[Stephen Harker]

On Tuesday 08 July 2003 13:28, Taylor James wrote:
> Taylor James wrote:
> I have googled for this error, and found loads of people with the same
> problem but no solution. A lot of people have suggested setting the
> blocksize - I've done this on the drive and from the tar command to no
> avail. I've also tried turning compression on the drive off with 'mt -f
> /dev/st0 compression 0' which does nothing. Perhaps there's a different way
> to turn compression off with this paticular drive?
>
> Hopefully, the thing just needs a good clean, but until my cleaning tape
> arrives I can't try that.
>
> Has anybody got any other ideas?

Just as an experiment, try ...

dump -0 -v -a -f /dev/st0 /some/file/system

the file system has to be a seperate partition (due to the nature of the dump 
command) but it will be interesting to see what the output is. Try /usr or 
/home if they are seperate partitions.

SteveH

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