From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; hu-HU; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616 Description of problem: If I run tar with the verify (-W) option, after it finishes the write, gives a "Warning: Cannot seek: Illegal seek" error message, and cannot start the verifying procedure. My command line is: tar -b 64 -Wcvf /dev/st0 directories-to-save I'm using an Adaptec AAA-133 SCSI Host Adapter, with the aic7xxx driver, and a HP-C1537A DDS-3 tape drive. The kernel version is: 2.6.8-1.521 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): tar-1.13.25-14 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start a backup with the -W option in tar. 2. Wait for the writing to finish. Actual Results: The verify process will not start, instead the above error message appears. Expected Results: The verify process should start. Additional info: With FC1, the verify option worked well. Also, I found out that others have this problem: http://linux.derkeiler.com/Newsgroups/comp.os.linux.hardware/2004-08/0822.html
Fedora Core 2 is now maintained by the Fedora Legacy project for security updates only. If this problem is a security issue, please reopen and reassign to the Fedora Legacy product. If it is not a security issue and hasn't been resolved in the current FC3 updates or in the FC4 test release, reopen and change the version to match.
Does this problem still exist in FC4?
No, FC4 does work!