bug with gnu cpio 2.4.2

[dominique . bieber]

Hi,
I have a problem using cpio with a Red Hat 6.2 whith a 2.2.14-5.0smp
kernel. The backup device is a HP DAT DDS4 20/40 with the right cartridge.
The cpio is launched by the cron. During the backup, my log (a redirecting
verbose on a file) have this message:
cpio: /dev/tty: Device not configured
and the cpio stop. The amount of date to backup is about 25Go.
Does Linux manage the DDS4 with the compressed capacity of 40Go?
The ls -l of /dev/tty is look like:
crw-rw-rw-   1 root     root       5,   0 May  5  1998 /dev/tty
Any Ideas?
Thank you.
Dominique.