From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 20 17:40:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from granite.sentex.net (granite.sentex.ca [199.212.134.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72FC514DE2 for ; Wed, 20 Oct 1999 17:40:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from ospf-mdt.sentex.net (ospf-mdt.sentex.net [205.211.164.81]) by granite.sentex.net (8.8.8/8.6.9) with SMTP id UAA18238; Wed, 20 Oct 1999 20:40:07 -0400 (EDT) From: mike@sentex.net (Mike Tancsa) To: hackett@rapdat.com (Nathan Hackett Admin) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Seagate STT20000N scsi tape drive Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 00:40:07 GMT Message-ID: <380e6061.1200751168@mail.sentex.net> References: <380c5808.1067527032@mail.sentex.net> In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Forte Agent .99e/32.227 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 20 Oct 1999 01:00:09 -0400, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote: >Thanks for the tip. I tried what you suggested, but I got the same result. I >changed the number of filemarks to one (it was two), rewrote the archive with >tar -c, but tar -u results in the same error. I know there have been some changes to the tape system since 3.2. You might try updating to 3.3. I am using one of these drives with some luck, although the tapes seem to go bad far too often. sa0: Removable Sequential Access SCSI-2 device sa0: 10.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 15) ---Mike > >Any other ideas? > >Thanks, > >/nathan > >Mike Tancsa wrote: > >> On 19 Oct 1999 02:23:38 -0400, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote: >> >> >I have a Seagate STT20000N 20 GB scsi tape drive on a Tyan Thunder 100 >> >running FreeBSD3.2. >> >> Try >> >> /usr/bin/mt seteotmodel 1 >> >> ---Mike >> Mike Tancsa (mdtancsa@sentex.net) >> Sentex Communications Corp, >> Waterloo, Ontario, Canada >> "Given enough time, 100 monkeys on 100 routers >> could setup a national IP network." (KDW2) > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >--- Mike Tancsa (mdtancsa@sentex.net) Sentex Communications Corp, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada "Given enough time, 100 monkeys on 100 routers could setup a national IP network." (KDW2) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message