From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 9 02:43:46 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id CAA22338 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 9 Dec 1997 02:43:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [128.120.56.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id CAA22321; Tue, 9 Dec 1997 02:43:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (d60-090.leach.ucdavis.edu [169.237.60.90]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) with ESMTP id CAA09524; Tue, 9 Dec 1997 02:43:40 -0800 (PST) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.8.7/8.7.3) id KAA07028; Tue, 9 Dec 1997 10:43:25 GMT Message-ID: <19971209024325.53867@dragon.nuxi.com> Date: Tue, 9 Dec 1997 02:43:25 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Scott Watters Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Questions about mt and SCSI subsystem Reply-To: obrien@NUXI.com References: <01bd01bc$98a6a760$4560f2cf@curious.vina-tech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.76 In-Reply-To: <01bd01bc$98a6a760$4560f2cf@curious.vina-tech.com>; from Scott Watters on Fri, Dec 05, 1997 at 12:30:16PM -0800 X-Warning: Mutt Bites! X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2.5-STABLE Organization: The NUXI *BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > the tape. It expects, correctly I think, to receive an EOM (end > of media) error when the tape gets to the end of recorded data. > However mt never returns an error, but the kernel logs a message > like this: > > Dec 3 17:42:14 newserver /kernel: st0(ahc0:6:0): BLANK CHECK req sz: 1 > (decimal) asc:0,5 End-of-data detected Probably the same bug that keeps ``dump 0a'' from working. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com -or- obrien@FreeBSD.org)