From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 25 15: 7: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from netserver.pth.com (208-58-241-41.s549.tnt1.atnnj.pa.dialup.rcn.com [208.58.241.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F24A737BF38 for ; Tue, 25 Apr 2000 15:06:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from paul@pth.com) Received: from dell.pth.com ([192.42.172.11] helo=dell) by netserver.pth.com with smtp (Exim 3.13 #1) id 12kDTt-0009Tr-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 25 Apr 2000 18:06:57 -0400 Message-ID: <024b01bfaf02$a6c2c180$0bac2ac0@pth.com> From: "Paul Haddad" To: Subject: Problem with multiple writes to a tape drive Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 18:07:05 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi All, Can anyone explain the following problem. 1. rewind tape, dump, rewind tape 2. forward to end of 1st dump, dump, rewind tape 3. Attempt to repeat step 2. This causes the following error message. (sa0:ncr0:0:6:0): WRITE(06). CDB: a 0 0 80 0 0 (sa0:ncr0:0:6:0): ILLEGAL REQUEST asc:90,1 (sa0:ncr0:0:6:0): Vendor Specific ASC Here's a camcontrol inquiry on the device. This is an AIWA TR-5 tape. pass6: Removable Sequential Access SCSI-2 device pass6: Serial Number 8CB203D1 pass6: 10.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 7) I've included the steps that caused this below. This is under 4.0 stable. --- Paul Haddad (paul@pth.com) AIM:(ETS Paul) Philadelphia is not dull -- it just seems so because it is next to exciting Camden, New Jersey. netserver/root# mt rewind netserver/root# /sbin/dump -0 -ua -b 32 -f /dev/nrsa0 /dev/da0a DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Tue Apr 25 17:41:24 2000 DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch DUMP: Dumping /dev/da0a to /dev/nrsa0 DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files] DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories] DUMP: estimated 27226 tape blocks. DUMP: dumping (Pass III) [directories] DUMP: dumping (Pass IV) [regular files] DUMP: DUMP: 27285 tape blocks on 1 volume DUMP: finished in 47 seconds, throughput 580 KBytes/sec DUMP: level 0 dump on Tue Apr 25 17:41:24 2000 DUMP: Closing /dev/nrsa0 DUMP: DUMP IS DONE netserver/root# mt rewind netserver/root# mt fsf 1 netserver/root# /sbin/dump -0 -ua -b 32 -f /dev/nrsa0 /dev/da0a DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Tue Apr 25 17:45:42 2000 DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch DUMP: Dumping /dev/da0a to /dev/nrsa0 DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files] DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories] DUMP: estimated 27226 tape blocks. DUMP: dumping (Pass III) [directories] DUMP: dumping (Pass IV) [regular files] DUMP: DUMP: 27285 tape blocks on 1 volume DUMP: finished in 29 seconds, throughput 940 KBytes/sec DUMP: level 0 dump on Tue Apr 25 17:45:42 2000 DUMP: Closing /dev/nrsa0 DUMP: DUMP IS DONE netserver/root# mt rewind netserver/root# mt fsf 1 netserver/root# /sbin/dump -0 -ua -b 32 -f /dev/nrsa0 /dev/da0a DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Tue Apr 25 17:47:57 2000 DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch DUMP: Dumping /dev/da0a to /dev/nrsa0 DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files] DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories] DUMP: estimated 27226 tape blocks. DUMP: dumping (Pass III) [directories] DUMP: write error 64 blocks into volume 1 DUMP: Do you want to restart?: ("yes" or "no") no DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message