Re: taper problem

["Antonio S. Martins Jr." <shadow wnet com br>]

On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Grant, Iain wrote:

> Does anyone have this same issue. I have attempted to use Taper 6.9a on both
> RedHat 6.0 and 6.1.
> I can go into utils and create a tape.
> If I go into backup, choose a directory and then finish, I always get a
> segmentation fault.

Hi,

   I had an AlphaServer 400 4/166 running RH6.1, I had a NCR 53c810 on it
with a DEC TLZ07 tape drive. Just after the instalation I had the same
problem. Then after I recompile the kernel (and rebuild the taper RPM) it
works, or at least I can backup/restore from taper!

   The only thing is that when taper starts to write the kernel (via SCSI
modules) give me a lot of errors: 

     ncr53c810-0-<5,*>: FAST-5 SCSI 5.0 MB/s (200 ns, offset 8)
     taper: Exception at [<fffffc000041ae00>] (fffffc000041ae20)

    But the backup are made!

    The strange think is that tar/dump/cpio can work with the tape without
problems!

                                            Antonio.

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