From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 22 19:41:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dnai.com (dnai.com [207.181.194.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FB2737B424; Tue, 22 Aug 2000 19:41:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from azoth.dnai.com (azoth.dnai.com [207.181.194.94]) by dnai.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA01447; Tue, 22 Aug 2000 19:41:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from terra (dnai-216-15-121-72.cust.dnai.com [216.15.121.72]) by azoth.dnai.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id TAA34197; Tue, 22 Aug 2000 19:41:06 -0700 (PDT) From: "Sam" To: , Subject: Tape problems. Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 19:43:47 -0700 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Right now we are using a Tekram DC-315U SCSI Adapter with an HP SureStore 24I tape drive. We are currently trying to figure out where our problems are emanating from (be it the driver, our misconfiguration, or the hardware). The problem is that whenever we attempt to use 'dump -0au -h 0 -d 61000 -f /dev/nrsa0 /home' and it reaches the end of the tape, it does not prompt for a new tape, instead it freezes the tape and gives us the following error: DUMP: write error 3725120 blocks into volume 1 and this in /var/log/messages (nothing relevant has been omitted): Aug 14 20:08:55 sol /kernel: (sa0:tekram_trm0:0:3:0): failed to write terminating f ilemark(s) Aug 14 20:08:56 sol /kernel: (sa0:tekram_trm0:0:3:0): tape is now frozen- use an OF FLINE, REWIND or MTEOM command to clear this state. In addition to this problem we cannot use restore on archives that we have dumped without specifying the tape density to dump (-d 61000). It may be noted that the drivers for our Tekram DC-315U SCSI Adapter are not part of the FreeBSD kernel, but Tekram provides a patch to the kernel source on their website. We can backup fine under Windows with the same hardware, and we have tried both FreeBSD 3.5-STABLE and 4.1-STABLE. We are really enjoying using FreeBSD, and would hate for a problem like this to force us to use that other open-source operating system. Any input would be greatly appreciated. Free Print Shop 3145 23rd St San Francisco, 94110 Phone: 415.648.3222 Fax: 415.648.4466 Website: http://freeprintshop.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message