Date: Fri, 03 Sep 1999 23:23:32 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: David Krinsky <krinsky@bantha.org> Cc: Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Seagate STT8000A (ATAPI/IDE) on FreeBSD? (fwd) Message-ID: <199909040523.XAA63385@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 03 Sep 1999 23:33:26 EDT." <19990903233326.A346@bantha.org> References: <19990903233326.A346@bantha.org> <19990903020859.A33016@bantha.org> <199909030647.IAA88473@freebsd.dk>
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In message <19990903233326.A346@bantha.org> David Krinsky writes: : Any ideas? I'm quite happy to help debug this one, if you have any : thoughts on where to go with it--I need to get backups working, and : I'd much rather not have to buy a new tape drive or switch OSes... reboot. dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/tape count=1000 bs=24k. Then see if you still have the problem. I've seen errors like the ones you reported, but this fixed it for me. Also, make sure that your drive is good. I had one I had to return because it was bad. Soren said the driver worked, and I could never get it working for me. The replacement worked like a charm. I also had one tape drive that I purchased at a garage sale for $0.50 that didn't have a tape head. That made writes to it fail as well... The other one I got at the garage sale for $0.50 has worked like a charm and it is, I think, a rebadged STT8000. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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