From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 19 12:01:38 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id MAA26298 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 19 Apr 1995 12:01:38 -0700 Received: from gateway.uwohali.com (gateway.uwohali.com [198.79.105.253]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id MAA26292 for ; Wed, 19 Apr 1995 12:01:35 -0700 Received: from Uwohali1.Uwohali.Com (uwohali1.uwohali.com [198.79.105.1]) by gateway.uwohali.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id OAA01819 for ; Wed, 19 Apr 1995 14:01:42 -0500 Received: from UWOHALI1/MAILQ by Uwohali1.Uwohali.Com (Mercury 1.13); Wed, 19 Apr 95 14:00:02 -0600 Received: from MAILQ by UWOHALI1 (Mercury 1.13); Wed, 19 Apr 95 13:59:48 -0600 From: "Walter Huff" Organization: Uwohali, Incorporated To: questions@FreeBSD.org Date: Wed, 19 Apr 1995 13:59:45 CST Subject: Problems with QIC-80 tape Reply-to: whuff@uwohali.com Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail/Windows (v1.22) Message-ID: <4646C35C73@Uwohali1.Uwohali.Com> Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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