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On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 08:39:37AM +0000, Matthias Scheler wrote:

> > This didn't appear to make any difference in earlier tests; sorry, I
> > should have mentioned that in the PR.  I kicked off a pax to the same
> > tape with default eew settings last night, and this morning it's asked
> > me to change, so at least pax seems to DTRT.
>=20
> It works with "dump" for me, too. Without "mt eew 1" a dump written to my
> DAT drive would cause an I/O error, too, and produce an unreadable backup.
> Using "mt eew 1" fixed the problem reliably.

Ok, it seems that *both* dump -e and eew are needed, and then it
works. After some various permutation tests, this is verified on both
the DLT originally reported, and also a DDS3 in the same machine.

Thanks for the tip.

I'll take the PR and change it into a doc fix to make this clearer in
the manpage, though I won't get to that wording right now.  Or should
we perhaps enable eew by default in st(4) ?

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Dan.
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