[ILUG] Odd stuff with /dev/st0

From: Paul Mc Auley (pmcauley at domain iol.ie)
Date: Fri 01 Jun 2001 - 08:32:09 IST

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I don't know, maybe someone has seen this.

I'm using a DLT7000 with an AHA 2944 under kernel 2.2.19 with Amanda as
part of a backup scheme.

In the past I've checked tape labels by using 'dd if=/dev/st0', which
was fine, but now (possibly since moving to 2.2.19), I get:

  dd: /dev/st0: Cannot allocate memory

and something similar from cat. However Amanda still works fine!
Suffice to say that the machine in question is not short of memory, and
I have tried using explicit size arguments (viz.
dd if=/dev/st0 bs=1024 count=1).

Any ideas?
        Paul

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