From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 4 10:59:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gershwin.tera.com (gershwin.tera.com [207.224.230.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C4D437B561 for ; Fri, 4 Aug 2000 10:59:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tera.com) Received: from tera.com (athena.sea.tera.com [207.224.230.169]) by gershwin.tera.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA02289; Fri, 4 Aug 2000 10:59:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: by tera.com (8.8.8+Sun/SMI-SVR4) id KAA28210; Fri, 4 Aug 2000 10:59:32 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2000 10:59:32 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Damon Hammis Cc: Gary Kline , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tape Problems Message-ID: <20000804105932.A28203@athena.sea.tera.com> References: <200008041718.KAA28140@tera.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95us In-Reply-To: ; from Damon Hammis on Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 01:27:31PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 01:27:31PM -0400, Damon Hammis wrote: > (my crap snipped) > > > This (or something very similar) happened to me in recent > > months... I believe your tape is bad. I remember seeing > > the ``READ(06)'' error and it finally turned out to be > > bad media. I hope that I'm wrong here and that somebody > > else had another clue or two. > > I suspected this, so I tried another tape which I had an older backup on > and got the same error. > *Ugh* Bad tape drive? Bad connections? bad driver? (Late last year I lost 10 months of files, &c, &c, &c, so I can sympathize.) gary To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message