From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 19 18:57:59 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63144106566C for ; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:57:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mikes@siralan.org) Received: from arvo.suso.org (arvo.suso.org [66.244.94.5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 414C48FC08 for ; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:57:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mikes@siralan.org) Received: from c-98-220-3-224.hsd1.in.comcast.net (c-98-220-3-224.hsd1.in.comcast.net [98.220.3.224]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by arvo.suso.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0B418805B; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:19:34 +0000 (GMT) Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 14:18:50 -0400 (EDT) From: "Michael L. Squires" X-X-Sender: mikes@familysquires.net To: Jaime In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20090319141433.F24611@familysquires.net> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Formatting a tape? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:57:59 -0000 Have you looked at /var/log/messages? I've found error messages written there when trying to write to a tape which showed that I needed to change the block size. I've used DLT tapes with a variety of SCSI controllers from 4.X to 6.X, and don't remember having to change anything to use "tar cvf /dev/sa0 *". Those were DLTIII/DLTIII+/DLT40 tape. I'm currently using AIT3 tapes in an Overland library which works very well. Mike Squires