From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 4 10:18:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gershwin.tera.com (gershwin.tera.com [207.224.230.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B01AE37BA54 for ; Fri, 4 Aug 2000 10:18:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tera.com) Received: from tera.com (athena.sea.tera.com [207.224.230.169]) by gershwin.tera.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA29733; Fri, 4 Aug 2000 10:18:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: by tera.com (8.8.8+Sun/SMI-SVR4) id KAA28140; Fri, 4 Aug 2000 10:18:39 -0700 (PDT) From: kline@tera.com (Gary Kline) Message-Id: <200008041718.KAA28140@tera.com> Subject: Re: Tape Problems In-Reply-To: from Damon Hammis at "Aug 4, 0 01:13:04 pm" To: squirrel@hammis.com (Damon Hammis) Date: Fri, 4 Aug 100 10:18:39 -0700 (PDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL23 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG According to Damon Hammis: > Anyone figured out how to recover from these kind of messages on your > console when trying to access your tape drive? > > (sa0:aha0:0:6:0): READ(06). CDB: 8 0 0 80 0 0 > (sa0:aha0:0:6:0): error code 0 > (sa0:aha0:0:6:0): tape is now frozen- use an OFFLINE, REWIND or MTEOM > command to clear this state. > > I'm trying to do a restore to recover files that I backed up with > 4.0-STABLE using dump. I blew the system away (after doing the backup) > and installed 4.1-RELEASE. Now everytime I try to run restore I get the > above errors. > This (or something very similar) happened to me in recent months... I believe your tape is bad. I remember seeing the ``READ(06)'' error and it finally turned out to be bad media. I hope that I'm wrong here and that somebody else had another clue or two. gary To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message