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Re: mt and tar fail on LTO-5 drives
- From: Eliot Moss <moss at cs dot umass dot edu>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 16:28:16 -0400
- Subject: Re: mt and tar fail on LTO-5 drives
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- Reply-to: moss at cs dot umass dot edu
On 8/19/2013 3:53 PM, bartels wrote:
On 08/19/2013 08:44 PM, Guy Harrison wrote:
Thanks Guy, but these troubles are only seen with tar / mt.
Both drives work fine with LTFS.
I know I am grasping at straws, but I wonder if manually
setting the tape length with tar's --tape-length option
would be of any use here ...
Not sure if you can fool it into continuing ...
Regards -- Eliot Moss
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