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SCSI tape multi-vol tar problem
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hank Pustarfi)
Thu Jan 26 11:34:01 1995
From: bonzai!hank@aluxpo.att.com (Hank Pustarfi)
To: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
Cc: Linux-Help@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU (linux-help)
Original-From: aluxpo!bonzai!hank (Hank Pustarfi)
Original-To: aluxpo!att!vger.rutgers.edu!linux-scsi (linux-scsi)
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 1995 10:09:49 -0500 (EST)
It appears there is a problem when tar is used to do multi-volume
saves using SCSI tape. It occurs only when a file is broken by a
tape boundary. When the next tape volume is read it returns
one or more of the following errors;
FILE_NAME is not continued on this volume!
This volume is out of sequence:
This was a problem in very early kernels. The problem was
fixed with some scsi patches for a kernel 0.98.4 about 11/93
The patches took care of write-behind, EOM detection and data
saving. I am not sure when this broke again. Does anyone have
a fix for this problem?
Using the following;
kernel 1.1.83 or 1.1.84
SCSI Adaptec 1542
GCC 2.5.8
Libc 4.5.26
tar 1.11.2
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