From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Sep 17 22:39:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from granite.sentex.net (granite.sentex.ca [199.212.134.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 267FA15422 for ; Fri, 17 Sep 1999 22:39:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from ospf-mdt.sentex.net (ospf-mdt.sentex.net [205.211.164.81]) by granite.sentex.net (8.8.8/8.6.9) with SMTP id BAA09409; Sat, 18 Sep 1999 01:39:09 -0400 (EDT) From: mike@sentex.net (Mike Tancsa) To: pryker@skynetweb.com (Phillip Ryker) Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Tape Drive Insanity!! Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 05:52:11 GMT Message-ID: <37e327c8.185315900@mail.sentex.net> References: In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Forte Agent .99e/32.227 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >I read through the handbook and I did exactly what it asks. I did a: > > mt fsf 1 > >And I got the following error: > > mt: /dev/nrsa0: fsf: Input/output error If there is nothing on the tape, you will get that error. > >And the /var/log/messages reports: > > Sep 17 14:38:06 ns5 /kernel: (sa0:ahc0:0:4:0): SPACE. CDB: 11 1 >0 >0 1 0 >Sep 17 14:38:06 ns5 /kernel: (sa0:ahc0:0:4:0): BLANK CHECK req sz: 1 >(decimal) asc:0,5 >Sep 17 14:38:06 ns5 /kernel: (sa0:ahc0:0:4:0): End-of-data detected > >ALso, when I try to run a dump as follows: > > dump -0u /etc Is /etc really on a separate partition ? try instead to dump a partition ---Mike ---Mike Mike Tancsa (mdtancsa@sentex.net) Sentex Communications Corp, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada "Given enough time, 100 monkeys on 100 routers could setup a national IP network." (KDW2) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message