[rescue] SOLVED - Redhat 6.2 dump/Redhat 8.0 restore

Steve Hatle shatle at nfldinet.com
Wed Jul 23 11:34:36 CDT 2003


On 7/23/03 6:52 AM, "James" <james at jdfogg.com> wrote:

> 
> Smells like a horked tape.

After barking up a few wrong trees, the problem was apparently hard vs.
variable block length in the hardware, if I understand it correctly.

Anyway, issuing
  
  mt -f /dev/st0 setblk 0

Solved the problem, and the restore is running as I type.

Steve



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