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I'm working with FC6 and an LT01 SCSI tape drive. &nbsp;I'm trying to create a copy of the tape and my plan was to use dd to read the tape to a file and then dd the file back to a blank tape. &nbsp; The problem is that I'm only get 64k of data from the tape and then it stops like it's reached the end of the tape. &nbsp;I created the tape a couple of hours ago on a Windows 2003 server (sp2) and it contains 104gb of data. &nbsp;Oddly, I cannot find 'mt' on my system.<br />
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My dd command was as follows: &nbsp; &nbsp;dd if=/dev/st0 of=/tmp/tapefile bs=128k. &nbsp; Buffer sizes less than 64k generate memory errors and no data.
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I'm working with FC6 and an LT01 SCSI tape drive.  I'm trying to create a copy of the tape and my plan was to use dd to read the tape to a file and then dd the file back to a blank tape.   The problem is that I'm only get 64k of data from the tape and then it stops like it's reached the end of the tape.  I created the tape a couple of hours ago on a Windows 2003 server (sp2) and it contains 104gb of data.  Oddly, I cannot find 'mt' on my system.

My dd command was as follows:    dd if=/dev/st0 of=/tmp/tapefile bs=128k.   Buffer sizes less than 64k generate memory errors and no data.

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