Re: [Bug-tar] tar: unable to read LTO4 tapes on a LTO5 drive using tar

[Joerg Schilling]

Antonio Diaz Diaz <address@hidden> wrote:

> Paul Eggert wrote:
> >>we are getting io errors.
> > 
> > Possibly that's because the tape is bad.
>
> If this is the case and the cause are media errors, you can try reading 
> the tape with ddrescue[1].
>
> [1] http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html

Most read problems with tapes on Linux systems are caused by bad drivers that 
do not put the drive into the right mode. Most tapes are written in blocked 
mode but Linux usually tries to read them as unblocked.

Jörg

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