Date: Mon, 09 Sep 1996 22:10:32 -0700 From: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" <michaelv@MindBender.serv.net> To: Richard J Kuhns <rjk@grauel.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SCSI tape drive problem in -current Message-ID: <199609100510.WAA12396@MindBender.serv.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of Mon, 09 Sep 96 15:06:36 -0500. <199609092006.PAA11006@watson.grauel.com>
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>I then tried to reload some stuff from my /usr backup (Infocom games, as it >happens) -- no luck. The tape positions itself when I put it in, but when >I run "tar -tvf /dev/rst0", the light on the tape drive comes on for a >fraction of a second, and that's it -- I get my prompt back. There are no >error messages anywhere; tar doesn't complain, there's nothing on the >console, and nothing new under /var/log. Maybe you have more than one EOF or EOT marker on the tape, and you need to scan past the first one. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael L. VanLoon michaelv@MindBender.serv.net --< Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free un*x >-- NetBSD working ports: 386+PC, Mac 68k, Amiga, Atari 68k, HP300, Sun3, Sun4/4c/4m, DEC MIPS, DEC Alpha, PC532, VAX, MVME68k, arm32... NetBSD ports in progress: PICA, others... -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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