From owner-freebsd-current Mon Sep 9 12:59:31 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA15517 for current-outgoing; Mon, 9 Sep 1996 12:59:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA15511 for ; Mon, 9 Sep 1996 12:59:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from watson.grauel.com (watson.grauel.com [199.233.104.36]) by who.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.11) with ESMTP id MAA05063 for ; Mon, 9 Sep 1996 12:59:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from rjk@localhost) by watson.grauel.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA11006; Mon, 9 Sep 1996 15:06:36 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 9 Sep 1996 15:06:36 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199609092006.PAA11006@watson.grauel.com> From: Richard J Kuhns To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: SCSI tape drive problem in -current Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hardware: 120 MH Pentium, 32 MB RAM, BT946C controller, 2 Seagate Barracudas, Archive Viper tape drive, ASUS motherboard. I recently loaded -current on my home machine, which I had been using to track -stable. Before upgrading, I backed up every partition that had anything I wanted to save on it's own tape, using tar. The installation (from the 960801-SNAP CD) went very smoothly; I told sysinstall to newfs /, /usr, and /var, and to leave the other partitions alone. I then tried to reload some stuff from my /usr backup (Infocom games, as it happens) -- no luck. The tape positions itself when I put it in, but when I run "tar -tvf /dev/rst0", the light on the tape drive comes on for a fraction of a second, and that's it -- I get my prompt back. There are no error messages anywhere; tar doesn't complain, there's nothing on the console, and nothing new under /var/log. I tried running a new backup; I could create it and re-read it without any trouble. I also did a "make bootstrap; make world" last night, with ctm updates through about noon EST yesterday (Sep 8); it didn't make any difference. I brought the (-stable) /usr backup to work with me this morning, and found to my joy that a machine in the office running 960501-SNAP with an Archive Anaconda tape drive can read it without any trouble. The tapes are Maxell DC-6525s. Comments? This is potentially a major problem, and I'm willing to help track it down, with a few pointers from those more experienced.... -- Rich Kuhns rjk@grauel.com PO Box 6249 Tel: (317)477-6000 \ 100 Sawmill Road x319 Lafayette, IN 47903 (800)489-4891 /