[ILUG] Re: 2.2.19 & C1537A HP Tape drive

[Paul Mc Auley]

On Tue, 6 Nov 2001 18:55:03 +0000 (GMT) John Ronan <j0n at tssg.wit.ie>  wrote:

| I've got a maddening problem with this drive. Once I figured out that I
| had to keep the blocksizes small <16K, I thought I had it working, but I
| did a small backup or a tar.gz, then did a restore.

| md5sum /root/openssh-2.9p2.tar.gz
| fb5ea44cb5a894bed7b610c5a517542d  /root/openssh-2.9p2.tar.gz
| root at elvis:/tmp/j0n > md5sum openssh-2.9p2.tar.gz
| 7ba6c916e4cb3dfe2f1e029e8fe06f0f  openssh-2.9p2.tar.gz

| No errors messages, or anything, Kernel version is 2.2.19

| It's the only device on the controller and it is terminated.

| Any ideas anyone, what am I missing?

1. Perhaps the block size needs to be _at_least_ 32k, I had an odd 
   problem which reported 'out of memory' for block sizes less than 32k.
2. Kernel 2.2.20 is out...
	Paul