Hi all, I 'm just install a scsi card BusLogic BT-958 and HP DAT 40, on my fedora core 6 system. I usually backup my system, using tar. My problem is backup doesn't running well.

And this is my backup script: #tar -b 1024 -cvf /dev/st0 /usr/local/src/my_home/yahoomail | bzip2 -9 > /var/log/Backup.log.bz2

Backup only run a while, and archive some files in directory and then stop.

[root@mis-s155 ~]# tar -b 1024 -cvf /dev/st0 /usr/local/src/my_home/yahoomail | bzip2 -9 > /var/tmp/Backup.log.bz2 tar: Removing leading `/' from member names tar: /dev/st0: Cannot write: Device or resource busy tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

But when I put out -b parameter on tar. It run a while and not backup directory at all

The backup script I used was running well when I'm using redhat 9.0 system. I attach some message from my system

scsi: ***** BusLogic SCSI Driver Version 2.1.16 of 18 July 2002 ***** scsi: Copyright 1995-1998 by Leonard N. Zubkoff lnz@dandelion.com scsi5: Configuring BusLogic Model BT-958 PCI Wide Ultra SCSI Host Adapter scsi5: Firmware Version: 5.06I, I/O Address: 0xDC00, IRQ Channel: 225/Level scsi5: PCI Bus: 2, Device: 3, Address: 0xFEAFF000, Host Adapter SCSI ID: 7 scsi5: Parity Checking: Enabled, Extended Translation: Enabled scsi5: Synchronous Negotiation: Fast, Wide Negotiation: Enabled scsi5: Disconnect/Reconnect: Enabled, Tagged Queuing: Enabled scsi5: Scatter/Gather Limit: 128 of 8192 segments, Mailboxes: 211 scsi5: Driver Queue Depth: 211, Host Adapter Queue Depth: 192 scsi5: Tagged Queue Depth: Automatic, Untagged Queue Depth: 3 scsi5: SCSI Bus Termination: Both Enabled, SCAM: Disabled scsi5: *** BusLogic BT-958 Initialized Successfully *** scsi5 : BusLogic BT-958 Vendor: HP Model: C5683A Rev: YP61 Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 scsi 5:0:3:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 1 st: Version 20050830, fixed bufsize 32768, s/g segs 256 st 5:0:3:0: Attached scsi tape st0 st0: try direct i/o: yes (alignment 512 B)

[root@mis-s155 ~]# mt -f /dev/st0 status SCSI 2 tape drive: File number=-1, block number=-1, partition=0. Tape block size 0 bytes. Density code 0x26 (DDS-4 or QIC-4GB). Soft error count since last status=0 General status bits on (1010000): ONLINE IM_REP_EN

I very appeciate for any solution and comment.

Thank you Budiono