On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 09:53:07PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> i've got "new" DDS-1 tape drive with compression. i started dump with -a
> option (autodetect end of tape). what i've got was
> 
>   DUMP: write error 2876544 blocks into volume 1
>   DUMP: Do you want to restart?: ("yes" or "no") no
> 
> 
> instead of "insert next volume"
> 
> while dmesg shows:
> 
> st0(adv0:6:0):  Check Condition on CDB: 0x0a 00 00 80 00 00
>     SENSE KEY:  Recovered Error
>                 EOM Detected
>    INFO FIELD:  32768
>      ASC/ASCQ:  End-Of-Partition/Medium Detected
>          SKSV:  Actual Retry Count: 2

I suspect you need to do a 'mt eew' before the dump. This is what I had
to do using a 4G hexabyte.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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