[5084] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: Problem with Scsi Tapes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (brian@nycrc.net)
Tue Nov 10 21:06:16 1998
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 14:29:36 -0500
From: brian@nycrc.net
To: Kai.Makisara@metla.fi
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.4.03.9811071051410.11594-100000@abies.metla.fi>; from Kai M{kisara on Sat, Nov 07, 1998 at 10:58:10AM +0200
> Any well-behaving (according to the standard) scsi tape should work.
>
> > HP Surestore T4i. This drive uses the Travan TR-4 4.0GB cartridges.
>
> The HP Travan drives have not always been "well-behaving" ;-(
Thanks for the info. I have heard that Travan tapes were flaky but
I just wanted to verify it with someone.
> > format. Also sometimes when I run tar -tvzf /dev/st0 I get extra
> > garbage at the EOT marker and gzip complains about it but says the
> > uncompression was OK. I ran the other larger tape drive on the same
>
> You can write and read only complete blocks with tapes. Tar writes
> complete blocks but when you gzip this, the result probably is not an
> integral number of blocks. The tape driver pads the last block with zeros
> and when you read the data, you read also these additional zeros. This is
> probably what gunzip complains about.
>
However, why do you think it happens with the HP-Travan 4G drive and not
the HP-12G drive? Is that just the flakiness of the Travan rearing
its ugly head?
Brian
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