From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 21 22:13: 4 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp011.mail.yahoo.com (smtp011.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.173.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BB40F37B400 for ; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 22:12:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wks-94-207-167.kscable.com (HELO yahoo.com) (jlboss@24.94.207.167 with plain) by smtp.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 22 Apr 2002 05:12:11 -0000 Message-ID: <3CC39BAF.3030505@yahoo.com> Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 00:12:15 -0500 From: "Justin L. Boss" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020314 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Brian T.Schellenberger" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Someone please help with backup problem References: <3CC38631.60409@yahoo.com> <20020422034620.35B1ABB29@i8k.babbleon.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed 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 Yes, it was working on a linux system. I'm not sure what you mean by i/o to the tape? I know what i/o is, but not to the tape. Brian T.Schellenberger wrote: >On Sunday 21 April 2002 11:40 pm, Justin L. Boss wrote: >| This is the third time I have asked this. > >First, if I follow you, this is a tape problem, not a backup problem; a more >accurate sugject line might help. > >Second, the hardware list might help more with device problems. > >Third, if you've won "stump the band" after asking questions a couple of >times, and none of the speciality groups seem obvious then it should be cool >to post to -hackers. > >Anyway . . . have you dont any i/o to the tape successfully, read or write? >Have you tried other media? >Can you use it under any other O/S? > >| >| I'm trying to backup to a Iomega 5G internal tape drive. It seams like >| it is working when I do a: >| >| mt -f /dev/ast0 status >| Mode Density Blocksize bpi Compression >| Current: 0x01:X3.22-1983 512 bytes 800 none >| ---------available modes--------- >| 0: default variable 0 none >| 1: default variable 0 none >| 2: default variable 0 none >| 3: default variable 0 none >| --------------------------------- >| File Number: 0 Record Number: 0 Residual Count 0 >| >| but when I do a: >| >| mt -f /dev/ast0 erase >| mt: /dev/ast0: erase: Input/output error >| >| >| and when I do a: >| >| tar -zpcf /dev/ast0 /home >| tar: Removing leading / from absolute path names in the archive. >| tar (child): can't write to /dev/ast0 : Input/output error >| >| my dmesg output for the tape looks like this: >| >| ast0: TAPE at ata1-slave using PIO4 >| >| I thank you for your help. >| >| >| >| >| _________________________________________________________ >| Do You Yahoo!? >| Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com >| >| >| To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >| with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message