Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 14:18:50 -0400 (EDT) From: "Michael L. Squires" <mikes@siralan.org> To: Jaime <jaime@snowmoon.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Formatting a tape? Message-ID: <20090319141433.F24611@familysquires.net> In-Reply-To: <ae4324ed0903190915u5a9ac68fw170f38354323e72e@mail.gmail.com> References: <ae4324ed0903190915u5a9ac68fw170f38354323e72e@mail.gmail.com>
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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. I've used DLT tapes with a variety of SCSI controllers from 4.X to 6.X, and don't remember having to change anything to use "tar cvf /dev/sa0 *". Those were DLTIII/DLTIII+/DLT40 tape. I'm currently using AIT3 tapes in an Overland library which works very well. Mike Squires
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