Hi, I'm having some problems with an IDE tape drive, it is a Sony SDX-420C. I seem to be able to tar data to the tape device without any problems, but when I go to test or restore the archive on the tape everything dies horribly. Testing the archive with the following commands immediately after finishing the backup causes a kernel panic. mt rewind tar tvf /dev/tape The tape seems to have the tar file on there as it displays the right contents on the screen before printing a whole lot of rubbish up and ending with the kernel panic. /dev/tape is a symbolic link to /dev/nht0, all the mt commands appear to work okay. Now if I try and restore from the tape, tar returns with an error (don't have the error at the moment as I have to re-install the machine) after this, pretty much any commands that I run print an error to do with LVM. I was restoring the data to /tmp, after the restore /tmp is no longer accessible and returns LVM errors. When I shutdown the system halts while trying to turn off the various daemons that are running. When I reboot I get a kernel panic when the system tries to mount the root file system. Basically, the filesystem is trashed beyond hope of recovery. Booting 'linux rescue' from the install disk gets mixed responses, with the first install I did the rescue disk could mount the volumes but 'ls -l' showed that a few of the directories (/boot, /bin, /sbin) were corrupted, after re-installing... trying the backup again... trashing the disk again... 'linux rescue' can't even find a linux partition. Justin. -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
