SUMMARY: Tape Drive errors

Hi,

Lots of people emailed me to let me know that I was
missing a "-" in the command line.  well, that was
only a typo in the message, I didn't forget it on the
actual command line. :)  

I ended up going into the SCSI BIOS and disabled
"Initiate Wide Negotiation".  This set the sync
transfer rate to the lowest possible value, 40MB/s.  
The problem seems to have gone away now.

Does this make sense for a tape drive?  Should wide
negotiation be disabled?  I assume the tape drive
isn't capable of more than 40MB/s anyway (DLT-IV
drive).

I backed up about 9GB of data and it took roughly 2
hours over switched 100mbit fdx ethernet, writing to
the remote tape drive.

Joe

Original question below:
> I'm backing up a database server via tar over an
> ethernet to a remote tape.  Both servers are
> connected
> to the same switch, 100mbit fdx.  There is minimal
> traffic except for the actual tar.
> I'm running the command:
> tar -cvpf . | rsh remotebox buffer -o /dev/tape
> 
> Tar version is GNU tar 1.13
> 
> The tar command randomly chokes, usually on large
> files. Here's the output: 
> 
> buffer (writer): write of data failed: Input/output
> error bytes to write=10240, bytes written=-1, total
> written 
>      8070K
> Broken pipe
> 
> Similiar problems occur if I use GNU tar's
> user@host:file option.
> 
> Anyone know what's going on here and a possible fix?
> 
> Much appreciated.

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