Date: Wed, 19 Apr 1995 13:59:45 CST From: "Walter Huff" <WHUFF@uwohali.com> To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Problems with QIC-80 tape Message-ID: <4646C35C73@Uwohali1.Uwohali.Com>
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Howdy y'all... been lurking for a couple of days, thought it was time to kick in a question. Have a pretty generic 486 box running 2.0R, 8MB memory, 100MB IDE drive (yeah, it's small, but the machine isn't used for much more than bootp, outgoing mail, and DNS). I had a spare Colorado Jumbo 250 I hung off the floppy cable in place of drive B to use for backups. Well, the darn thing just won't work. The kernel sees it cause I get this during bootup: >Apr 18 10:49:15 gateway kernel: fdc0 at 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa >Apr 18 10:49:15 gateway kernel: fdc0: [0: fd0: 1.2MB 5.25in] [2: ft0: Colorado tape] but when I try to use it via tar I get this: >gateway# tar cvzf - /usr | ft "Dump of /usr" >tar: Removing leading / from absolute path names in the archive. >usr/ >usr/tmp/ >usr/bin/ >usr/bin/cu >/dev/rft0: Input/output error >usr/bin/uucp >gateway# Sometimes the tape moves right before I get the I/O error, sometimes not. I've had the entire thing hang up, with nothing killing the "ft" process... not even a "kill -9". Had to re-boot, and even then it complained that the process wouldn't die before it restarted. On other occasions, usually when the tape did move, I also get a message on the console that says "kernel: no pages????". In those cases the ft process is definately hung. I've tried this using a number of different tapes all of which had been recently formatted, so I don't think it's due to a bad block or some such nonsense. Any hints/suggestions/retorts? - Walter Huff
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