Date: 03 Sep 1999 17:17:41 -0700 From: Scott.Blachowicz@seaslug.org To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Problem writing to Exabyte 8200 drive under FreeBSD 3.2 Message-ID: <uiu5rsf6i.fsf@seaslug.org>
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[I posted this to comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc, then remembered this list...sorry if you see it twice] Hi- I'm finally getting around to setting up my Exabyte EXB-8200 8mm tape drive hooked up to an ncr0 SCSI controller on a newly installed FreeBSD 3.2 system. The tape drive IDs like this: sa0 at ncr0 bus 0 target 3 lun 0 sa0: <EXABYTE EXB-8200 2618> Removable Sequential Access SCSI-CCS device sa0: 3.300MB/s transfers I've tried dump'ing & tar'ing to a couple different tapes along with various 'mt' rewind, fsf, offline commands. Those 'mt' commands work, but writing to the tape: c2-sab:/backups# tar cvvf /dev/nrsa0 . drwxr-xr-x root/wheel 0 Sep 2 19:40 1999 ./ drwxrwxrwx root/wheel 0 Jul 26 17:21 1999 voyager/ drwxrwxr-x scott/wheel 0 Jul 26 12:05 1999 voyager/Dev-in-progress/ drwxrwxr-x scott/wheel 0 Jul 27 23:46 1999 voyager/Dev-in-progress/19990726/ drwxrwxr-x scott/wheel 0 Jul 26 12:07 1999 voyager/Dev-in-progress/19990726/Full/ drwxrwxr-x scott/wheel 0 Jul 26 12:08 1999 voyager/Dev-in-progress/19990726/Full/P/ drwxrwxr-x scott/wheel 0 Jul 26 12:38 1999 voyager/Dev-in-progress/19990726/Full/P/arg/ drwxrwxr-x scott/wheel 0 Jul 26 12:07 1999 voyager/Dev-in-progress/19990726/Full/P/arg/Bin/ drwxrwxr-x scott/wheel 0 Jul 26 12:07 1999 voyager/Dev-in-progress/19990726/Full/P/arg/Bin/Note/ drwxrwxr-x scott/wheel 0 Jul 26 12:07 1999 voyager/Dev-in-progress/19990726/Full/P/arg/Bin/tmp/ drwxrwxr-x scott/wheel 0 Jul 26 12:08 1999 voyager/Dev-in-progress/19990726/Full/P/arg/Bitmaps/ -r--rw-r-- scott/wheel 1480 Dec 30 10:22 1998 voyager/Dev-in-progress/19990726/Full/P/arg/Bitmaps/foo1.BMP -r--rw-r-- scott/wheel 1480 Jan 29 20:27 1998 voyager/Dev-in-progress/19990726/Full/P/arg/Bitmaps/foo2.BMP -r--rw-r-- scott/wheel 1224 Jan 29 20:27 1998 voyager/Dev-in-progress/19990726/Full/P/arg/Bitmaps/foo3.BMP tar: can't write to /dev/nrsa0 : No space left on device or... c2-sab:/backups# ./dumpit + level=0 + mt=/dev/nrsa0 + mt -f /dev/nrsa0 rew + dump -0uab 32 -f /dev/nrsa0 /backups DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Thu Sep 2 21:40:55 1999 DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch DUMP: Dumping /dev/rwd1s1e (/backups) to /dev/nrsa0 DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files] DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories] DUMP: estimated 1054281 tape blocks. DUMP: End of tape detected DUMP: Closing /dev/nrsa0 DUMP: Change Volumes: Mount volume #2 DUMP: Is the new volume mounted and ready to go?: ("yes" or "no") yes DUMP: Volume 2 begins with blocks from inode 0 DUMP: EOT detected at start of the tape! DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted. With the tape that's in there right now, I've done successful 'mt fsf 1' and 'mt rew' commands (and each command took a while and I could hear the tape moving), then... c2-sab:/backups# mt -f /dev/nrsa0 rew c2-sab:/backups# dd if=/dev/nrsa0 | od -x dd: /dev/nrsa0: Invalid argument 0+0 records in 0+0 records out 0 bytes transferred in 0.024815 secs (0 bytes/sec) c2-sab:/backups# mt -f /dev/nrsa0 status Mode Density Blocksize bpi Compression Current: default variable 0 unsupported ---------available modes--------- 0: default variable 0 unsupported 1: default variable 0 unsupported 2: default variable 0 unsupported 3: default variable 0 unsupported --------------------------------- Current Driver State: at rest. --------------------------------- File Number: 0 Record Number: 0 It seems like I've gotta be missing something pretty basic hear, but I can't think of what it could be. Any ideas? -- Scott.Blachowicz@seaslug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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