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To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
Subject: Re: mt erase command question
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2000 06:46:16 -0600
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Greetins,

On Thu, 03 Feb 2000, Dan Nelson wrote:
> In the last episode (Feb 03), Support said:
> > I think that mt erase only erases the first fileSys on the tape.  So
> > my question is if I have 3 fileSys on the tape how do I erase all at
> > once?
> 
> The standard "mt erase" is a "long" erase, which should zero out the
> entire tape.

 I was confused because the man page it says a count of 0 disables long erase,
which in by default.  So I assumed that this only cleared the 1st fileSys

So, I was wanting to understand exactly what the command:
 mt erase {count}
 actually does.  Please explain the count.

>  
> > Thanks!
> > 
> > FYI:  The reason I have to do this is the tape gets block size
> > confused sometimes (maybe once per month) and this is the only way I
> > have found to fix the tape problem:( It happens at random on
> > different boxes and tapes.  I use tar for backups.  FreeBSD 3.4 Any
> > thoughts?
> 
> I've never had any problems with blocksizes on my tape drives.  When
> you say "confused", what exactly do you mean?
> 

Well, the system starts saying media error and I discovered
the block size error when the command:  mt erase   did not fix the
problem on the tape with multiple fileSys.  I took it over to a windoz box and
it reorted block size errors during an erase from it.  I then discovered that
if I put a count on the mt erase that it as well could correct the problem.
Hence I am trying to understand the count.


 > > Richard Nelson > 
> No relation. :)
> 

Neighbors, however through FreeBSD;)

> -- 
> 	Dan Nelson
> 	dnelson@emsphone.com
-- 
Richard Nelson
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