On Wed, 09 Aug 2000, pb@dev.localweb.com wrote:
> Earlier, I posted that my tape backups were being mysteriously truncated.
> Now I know that they're being truncated to the tape block size.
>
> That is to say, the block size detected by ide-tape.c is 26kB, so if I
> want to get all my data back I have to write to it in some multiple of
> that block size.
>
> That having been said, I never had this problem before. Is this how tape
> devices are supposed to work under Linux, or is this a bug? I'd hate to
> have to rewrite all my scripts because ide-tape.c mysteriously picked a
> different block size to autodetect one day.
>
> Also, many thanks to Matthias Andree for hashing this out with me, and
> providing some useful pointers to tape drive info.
I'm taking this to a German de.* newsgroup (not useful for you) where
Ronny Tobler ran into a similar problem after getting a Seagate 20 Gig
el-cheapo-Travan junk drive, also with BRU. He can possibly share his
insights if he has any.
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