SCSI tape data loss

[Matthew Jacob]

Err, umm,  you need to run it to actual physical EOT so we can see what
happens with early warning...


On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, Dan Langille wrote:

> On 1 Jun 2003 at 19:03, Matthew Jacob wrote:
>
> >
> > Absolutely. I gave the BitKeeper URL of my toolkit, but here's a URL to
> > pull just the tape pattern test from:
> >
> > http://people.freebsd.org/~mjacob/tape_pattern_tester.c
>
> # ./tpt -v -b 512 -r 100 -n 10 -f /dev/nrsa0
> .......Rewind Tape
> ........Write Pass
> WEOT at File 9 Record 100 Offset 512 (512000 total bytes written)
> Elapsed Seconds: 118; Data Rate: 0MB/s
> .......Rewind Tape
> .........Read Pass
> REOT at File 10 Record 0 Offset 0 (512000 total bytes read)
> Elapsed Seconds: 5: Data Rate: 0MB/s
>
> > I *would* like to know what the output of 'mt status' on that drive is
> > too.
>
> # mt -f /dev/nrsa0 status
> Mode      Density              Blocksize      bpi      Compression
> Current:  0x13:X3B5/88-185A    variable       61000    DCLZ
> ---------available modes---------
> 0:        0x13:X3B5/88-185A    variable       61000    DCLZ
> 1:        0x13:X3B5/88-185A    variable       61000    DCLZ
> 2:        0x13:X3B5/88-185A    variable       61000    DCLZ
> 3:        0x13:X3B5/88-185A    variable       61000    DCLZ
> ---------------------------------
> Current Driver State: at rest.
> ---------------------------------
> File Number: 11 Record Number: 0        Residual Count 0
>
>
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> Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/
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