From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 3 13:58:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CAC437B400 for ; Wed, 3 Jul 2002 13:58:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0438743E09 for ; Wed, 3 Jul 2002 13:58:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) id g63KwPa26479; Wed, 3 Jul 2002 16:58:25 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200207032058.g63KwPa26479@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Subject: Re: backup problems To: michelle@newtonsecond.com (Michelle Weeks) Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 16:58:25 -0400 (EDT) Cc: syborg@stny.rr.com (John Bleichert), freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <46C4A654-8EC3-11D6-8646-00039368B8EC@newtonsecond.com> from "Michelle Weeks" at Jul 03, 2002 01:27:21 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > On Wednesday, July 3, 2002, at 11:57 AM, John Bleichert wrote: > > > >> On Wed, 3 Jul 2002, Michelle Weeks wrote: > >> > >> > >> 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