From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050922 Fedora/1.0.7-1.1.fc3 Firefox/1.0.7 Description of problem: Cannot use cpio to read backup sets that span multiple tapes. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): cpio-2.5.9.RHEL4 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Insert media in tape drive 2. mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind 3. mt -f /dev/nst0 setblk 0 4. mt -f /dev/nst0 defblksize 0 5. /bin/cpio -ocvC 32768 --force-local -M Tape_Change_Request < /tmp/longlist -F /dev/nst0 6. First tape hits end of media and is ejected, insert second tape 7. mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind 8. mt -f /dev/nst0 setblk 0 9. mt -f /dev/nst0 defblksize 0 10. Complete backup, eject second tape. 11. Put first media back in tape drive to read table of contents 12. /bin/cpio -tC 32768 -M Tape_Change_Request -F /dev/nst0 Actual Results: Failure when you reach the end of the first tape when reading table of contents: /bin/cpio: read error: Input/output error Expected Results: Expect cpio to read a backup set that spans multiple tapes. Additional info: Reproduced running cpio-2.5.9.RHEL4 (2.6.9-55.ELsmp) on hardware: SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AHA-2940U/UW/D / AIC-7881U Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 05 Lun: 00 Vendor: COMPAQ Model: SuperDLT1 Rev: 4B4B Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 The same problem is reproducible on RHEL3 (BZ 253613). http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-cpio/2005-01/msg00013.html
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An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2008-0719.html