From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 4 16:35:21 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id QAA21111 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 4 Jul 1995 16:35:21 -0700 Received: from disperse.demon.co.uk (disperse.demon.co.uk [158.152.1.77]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id QAA21105 for ; Tue, 4 Jul 1995 16:35:18 -0700 Received: from post.demon.co.uk by disperse.demon.co.uk id aa28667; 5 Jul 95 0:15 +0100 Received: from bagpuss.demon.co.uk by post.demon.co.uk id aa25292; 5 Jul 95 0:15 +0100 Received: (karl@localhost) by bagpuss.demon.co.uk (3.1/3.1) id VAA17730; Tue, 4 Jul 1995 21:30:46 +0100 From: Karl Strickland Message-Id: <199507042030.VAA17730@bagpuss.demon.co.uk> Subject: Re: mt grief? To: "Jonathan M. Bresler" Date: Tue, 4 Jul 1995 21:30:46 +0100 (BST) Cc: spaz@u.washington.edu, FreeBSD-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com In-Reply-To: from "Jonathan M. Bresler" at Jul 4, 95 08:46:25 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 942 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > On Tue, 4 Jul 1995, John Utz wrote: > > > me again! > > > > in a rare fit of prior planning, i actually backed up my tarfiles > > onto a scsi tape. Unfortuneately, i seem to be unable to read it! bummer! > > > > 128: {42} tar -xv > > st0: not ready > > tar: can't open /dev/rst0 : Input/output error > > 128: {43} mt rewind > > st0: not ready > > mt: /dev/nrst0: Input/output error > > john, use 'mt -f /dev/rst0 fsf 1' to awaken the mt/kernel code. > every time i boot, i get error from the drive till i do this. then 'mt > -f /dev/rst0 rewind' and the thing works like a champ ;) interesting! what kind of drive are you using? Cheers -- ------------------------------------------+----------------------------------- Mailed using ELM on FreeBSD | Karl Strickland PGP 2.3a Public Key Available. | Internet: karl@bagpuss.demon.co.uk |