From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 19 18:41:08 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48DB31065670 for ; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:41:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jaime@snowmoon.com) Received: from qw-out-2122.google.com (qw-out-2122.google.com [74.125.92.27]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D4048FC2E for ; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:41:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jaime@snowmoon.com) Received: by qw-out-2122.google.com with SMTP id 9so351438qwb.7 for ; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 11:41:07 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.224.28.77 with SMTP id l13mr4366579qac.19.1237488067285; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 11:41:07 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20090319141433.F24611@familysquires.net> References: <20090319141433.F24611@familysquires.net> Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 14:41:07 -0400 Message-ID: From: Jaime To: "Michael L. Squires" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Formatting a tape? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:41:09 -0000 On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Michael L. Squires wrote: > Have you looked at /var/log/messages? I've found error messages written > there when trying to write to a tape which showed that I needed to change > the block size. Good idea, but sadly there is nothing useful there. The following happened during my tinkering with mt, tar, and dd: Mar 19 14:06:32 atlas kernel: sa0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 6 lun 0 Mar 19 14:06:32 atlas kernel: sa0: Removable Sequential Access SCSI-2 device Mar 19 14:06:32 atlas kernel: sa0: 160.000MB/s transfers (80.000MHz, offset 96, 16bit) Mar 19 14:23:46 atlas kernel: (sa0:ahc0:0:6:0): Unexpected busfree in Data-out phase Mar 19 14:23:46 atlas kernel: SEQADDR == 0x86 Mar 19 14:23:46 atlas kernel: (sa0:ahc0:0:6:0): lost device Mar 19 14:23:46 atlas kernel: (sa0:ahc0:0:6:0): failed to write terminating filemark(s) Mar 19 14:23:47 atlas kernel: (sa0:ahc0:0:6:0): tape is now frozen- use an OFFLINE, REWIND or MTEOM command to clear this state. Mar 19 14:23:47 atlas kernel: (sa0:ahc0:0:6:0): removing device entry Mar 19 14:27:37 atlas kernel: sa0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 6 lun 0 Mar 19 14:27:37 atlas kernel: sa0: Removable Sequential Access SCSI-2 device Mar 19 14:27:37 atlas kernel: sa0: 160.000MB/s transfers (80.000MHz, offset 96, 16bit) Mar 19 14:29:19 atlas kernel: (sa0:ahc0:0:6:0): lost device Mar 19 14:29:19 atlas kernel: (sa0:ahc0:0:6:0): removing device entry Jaime