Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 28 Feb 2001 10:35:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 28 Feb 2001 10:35:03 -0500 Received: from windsormachine.com ([206.48.122.28]:51722 "EHLO router.windsormachine.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 28 Feb 2001 10:34:50 -0500 Message-ID: <3A9D1A95.51CE4AEC@windsormachine.com> Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 10:34:45 -0500 From: Mike Dresser Organization: Windsor Machine & Stamping X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Camm Maguire CC: Khalid Aziz , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.2.18 IDE tape problem, with ide-scsi In-Reply-To: <54u25g3yb9.fsf_-_@intech19.enhanced.com> <3A9BC2A9.F5EE8554@fc.hp.com> <544rxg2gde.fsf@intech19.enhanced.com> <3A9BC8ED.698DCA2C@fc.hp.com> <54vgpvq4y1.fsf@intech19.enhanced.com> <3A9BEF68.72EEF0E8@fc.hp.com> <54g0gyhlwk.fsf@intech19.enhanced.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-scanner: scanned by Inflex 0.1.5c - (http://www.inflex.co.za/) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I ran into a problem with tar and taper, with blocking, so what i do is backup a 128k file of emptiness, to guarantee that the last block of the real backup fit. > Restoring a tape typically then says 'gunzip: unexpected end of > file'. My guess was that the last fractional block of 32k wasn't > flushed to the drive. Of course, if I'm having media troubles > indicated by the first error above, then something else could be > happening, I suppose. But does erroneous block flushing in the driver > sound like a possibility? Mike Dresser - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/