Sense data errors trying to read from tape - 2.6.14-gentoo-r5

[James Lamanna]

On 5/23/06, James Lamanna <jlamanna@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Was trying to do an 'amrestore /dev/nst0' when I received the following OOPS:

[SNIP]

> I've also had problems restoring large XFS partitions off of tape
> (amrestore returns with input/output errors), but I'm not sure whether
> that is kernel or userspace related (no errors in dmesg or anything).
> In that case, amrestore did not have any problems restoring TAR-ed
> filesystems from tape (that was with 2.6.14-gentoo-r5).

[SNIP]

As a follow-up to the above on 2.6.14-gentoo-r5, while trying to
restore an XFS partition off of the tape (amrestore/dd doesn't oops on
this kernel) my dmesg fills with the following:

st0: Error with sense data: <6>st0: Current: sense key=0xb
   ASC=0x4b ASCQ=0x0

the command I'm running specifically is:
dd bs=32k skip=1 count=520531 conv=noerror,notrunc if=/dev/nst0 of=fs0restore

As you can see, my backups are not going as well as I had planned.

Thanks again.

-- James Lamanna
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