Re: 2.4.9 /dev/nst1 "Bad file descriptor"

[Seth Mos <knuffie@xxxxxxxxx>]

At 12:48 30-10-2001 -0500, Jonathan Dill wrote:
> Since upgrading from 2.4.3 to the 2.4.9 prerelease kernels, long tape
> writes fail after 1-2 GB on a 20 GB native tape with "Bad file
> descriptor" on /dev/nst1.  I switched back to the 2.4.3 kernel and the
> tapedrive is working fine.  When I get caught up on my backups and have
> some time to play with it, I'll send some more info.  I'm just hoping
> that someone may have heard of a problem like this and know what causes
> it.

I have no problems writing more then 30GB on a Ultrium LTO drive. Something 
must have broken. Have you tried tar or just filling with zero's ?

Cheers

--
Seth
Every program has two purposes one for which
it was written and another for which it wasn't
I use the last kind.