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Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 18:59:43 -0500
From: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
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To: rjk@greenend.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: problem with ide-scsi and IDE tape drive
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> I originally found this under 2.2.19, and upgraded to 2.4.13 to see if
> the problem was still there when running more recent code.  It is.

>     mt -f $TAPE rewind
>     echo "tape 1" | dd conv=sync of=$TAPE bs=$hsize count=1
> 
>     for x in 1 2 3; do
>       mt -f $TAPE rewind
>       dd if=$TAPE of=/dev/null bs=$hsize
>       date
>       tar -c -b 20 -f $TAPE /boot
>     done

Try "mt fsf" instead dd, see if that helps.

-- Pete
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