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| From: | Paul Eggert |
| Subject: | Re: [Bug-tar] tar: unable to read LTO4 tapes on a LTO5 drive using tar |
| Date: | Thu, 14 Jun 2012 11:28:01 -0700 |
| User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120430 Thunderbird/12.0.1 |
On 06/14/2012 01:01 AM, address@hidden wrote: > we are getting io errors. Possibly that's because the tape is bad. You can try reading the tape with dd, with various options; if that works then you can use the same options with tar, or even pipe dd's output into tar. If it doesn't work it's quite possibly the tape.
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