From owner-freebsd-isp Sat Sep 18 9:59:17 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from infoseek.com (corp-bbn.infoseek.com [204.162.96.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32F8214D32 for ; Sat, 18 Sep 1999 09:59:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cshaver@infoseek.com) Received: from maude.infoseek.com (maude [198.5.210.38]) by infoseek.com (8.8.5/8.8.4) with ESMTP id JAA28436; Sat, 18 Sep 1999 09:59:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from infoseek.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by maude.infoseek.com (8.8.5/8.8.4) with ESMTP id JAA23502; Sat, 18 Sep 1999 09:59:06 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <37E3C4DA.3220E5DA@infoseek.com> Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 09:59:06 -0700 From: "Craig W. Shaver" Organization: InfoSeek Corporation, Santa Clara, CA X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 5.6 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tape Drive Insanity!! References: <37e327c8.185315900@mail.sentex.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org What blocking size are you using? I have had trouble with tar tapes that I used one blocking size to write and then tried to read them with another (default) blocking size. I thought the tape was bad until I gave it the -b 'size' for the original tape write. Mike Tancsa wrote: > > >I read through the handbook and I did exactly what it asks. I did a: > > > > mt fsf 1 > > > >And I got the following error: > > > > mt: /dev/nrsa0: fsf: Input/output error > > If there is nothing on the tape, you will get that error. > > > > >And the /var/log/messages reports: > > > > Sep 17 14:38:06 ns5 /kernel: (sa0:ahc0:0:4:0): SPACE. CDB: 11 1 > >0 > >0 1 0 > >Sep 17 14:38:06 ns5 /kernel: (sa0:ahc0:0:4:0): BLANK CHECK req sz: 1 > >(decimal) asc:0,5 > >Sep 17 14:38:06 ns5 /kernel: (sa0:ahc0:0:4:0): End-of-data detected > > > >ALso, when I try to run a dump as follows: > > > > dump -0u /etc > > Is /etc really on a separate partition ? > > try instead to dump a partition > -- cshaver@infoseek.com (408)543-6451 Craig Shaver, Productivity Group POB 60458 Sunnyvale, CA 94088 (650)390-0654 http://www.progroup.com/ mailto:craig@progroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message