From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 18 13: 0: 0 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0169937B401 for ; Sat, 18 Jan 2003 13:00:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from volcano.planet.it (volcano.planet.it [212.110.160.74]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A23B343F18 for ; Sat, 18 Jan 2003 12:59:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from olgeni@uli.it) Received: from olgeni.olgeni (ppp-34.dial6.ctonet.it [212.110.181.34]) by volcano.planet.it (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D8E111F738; Sat, 18 Jan 2003 21:59:39 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by olgeni.olgeni (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0IKxD31040972; Sat, 18 Jan 2003 21:59:13 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from olgeni@uli.it) Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2003 21:59:13 +0100 (CET) From: Jimmy Olgeni X-X-Sender: olgeni@olgeni.olgeni To: stan Cc: Free BSD Questions list Subject: Re: Strange tape error message In-Reply-To: <20030117204411.GB11694@teddy.fas.com> Message-ID: <20030118215558.O40965@olgeni.olgeni> References: <20030117204411.GB11694@teddy.fas.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, stan wrote: > Jan 17 05:01:39 black /kernel: (sa0:ahc1:0:4:0): tape is now frozen- use an > OFFLINE, REWIND or MTEOM command to clear this state. I get this every time I perform a dump on a non rewinding device, and then start another tape write (on a SLR tape). Doing a "mt eom" between commands makes the error go away, but I couldn't figure out what's wrong... why was the tape frozen? -- jimmy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message