On Wed, 20 Nov 2002 at 9:54am, Mahidhar Kada wrote

> I am getting this error from past 2 days. What could be the problem?
> 
> linux     /dev/hda5      0        0        0   --     0:00    0.0
> 35:46  554.8
> 
> driver: linux /dev/hda5 0 [dump to tape failed, will try again]
> 
> FAILED AND STRANGE DUMP DETAILS:
> 
> /-- linux      /dev/hda5 lev 0 FAILED [data timeout]

Is this an early 2.4 kernel?  There are known (bad) interactions between 
early 2.4 kernels and old(er) versions of dump.  Either a) upgrade to a 
recent kernel and the most recent version of dump/restore (available at 
<http://dump.sourceforge.net>) or b) switch to tar.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University