Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 16:58:25 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: michelle@newtonsecond.com (Michelle Weeks) Cc: syborg@stny.rr.com (John Bleichert), freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: backup problems Message-ID: <200207032058.g63KwPa26479@clunix.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <46C4A654-8EC3-11D6-8646-00039368B8EC@newtonsecond.com> from "Michelle Weeks" at Jul 03, 2002 01:27:21 PM
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> > > On Wednesday, July 3, 2002, at 11:57 AM, John Bleichert wrote: > > > >> On Wed, 3 Jul 2002, Michelle Weeks wrote: > >> <snippage> > >> > >> The 'dmesg' command produces a bunch of information on what devices and > >> modules have been configured by the kernel (see the dmesg man page). I > >> don't know anything about tape drives, but assuming that /dev/nrs* > >> thingy > >> above is one, this would be a way to check dmesg for it: > >> > >> $ dmesg | grep nrs > > > > thank you for the explanation. > > > > here is the last part of the output from dmesg: > > > > Mounting root from ufs:/dev/da0s1a > > pid 263 (m4), uid 0 on /: file system full > > pid 263 (m4), uid 0 on /: file system full > > pid 263 (m4), uid 0 on /: file system full > > pid 279 (makemap), uid 0 on /: file system full > > pid 279 (makemap), uid 0 on /: file system full > > pid 279 (makemap), uid 0 on /: file system full > > (sa0:ahc0:0:12:0): ERASE. CDB: 19 0 0 0 0 0 > > (sa0:ahc0:0:12:0): DATA PROTECT asc:27,0 > > (sa0:ahc0:0:12:0): Write protected > > (sa0:ahc0:0:12:0): ERASE. CDB: 19 0 0 0 0 0 > > (sa0:ahc0:0:12:0): DATA PROTECT asc:27,0 > > (sa0:ahc0:0:12:0): Write protected > > (sa0:ahc0:0:12:0): tape is now frozen- use an OFFLINE, REWIND or MTEOM Well, it kinda looks like the tape has the write protect set. Most of them have a tab/window to open (or close depending on type of tape format) to prevent writing to the tape. It is also possible that the little thing on the drive that pokes in to the space on the tape cartridge to check for it has gotten bent, stuck, broken or otherwise non-functional. ////jerry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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