From owner-freebsd-scsi Thu Jul 11 22:24:51 1996 Return-Path: owner-freebsd-scsi Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA01555 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Thu, 11 Jul 1996 22:24:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA01545 for ; Thu, 11 Jul 1996 22:24:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id HAA09337; Fri, 12 Jul 1996 07:23:01 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id HAA25411; Fri, 12 Jul 1996 07:23:00 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id HAA18699; Fri, 12 Jul 1996 07:07:09 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199607120507.HAA18699@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: tandberg scsi tape + FreeBSD 2.1/2.0.5 To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 07:07:09 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: jbh@labyrinth.net.au (John Hartley) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199607120146.LAA12432@minotaur.labyrinth.net.au> from John Hartley at "Jul 12, 96 11:46:35 am" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As John Hartley wrote: > >What's the actual medium type in the drive while you captured the > >above? (Just curious.) > > > > The tape am using is a 1.2 GB "Magnus", I'm not sure what this translates > to in QIC terms. I think the ECMA-17 density was correct for this cartridge. > I have reperformed the test, having booted the box with the tape in the drive. > The following commands where then done: > scsi -f /dev/st0ctl.0 -d 0xff > mt -f /dev/rst0 status > tar tvf /dev/rst0 > mt -f /dev/rst0 status > Would the drive work if you do: mt fsr mt rewind tar tv ? -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)