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Date:      Wed, 28 Apr 1999 09:16:22 +0200
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: QIC tape problems on -stable (was: hanging `tar xfvR /dev/nrst0' process, can i debug it?)
Message-ID:  <19990428091622.29861@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <19990427212815.A674@saturn.kn-bremen.de>; from Juergen Lock on Tue, Apr 27, 1999 at 09:28:15PM %2B0200
References:  <19990420023954.A20589@saturn.kn-bremen.de> <19990427212815.A674@saturn.kn-bremen.de>

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As Juergen Lock wrote:

>  Huh!??  Why on earth is it trying to write filemarks??  Good that the
> tape was write protected...

Ouch!  It seems `mt rdhpos' and/or `mt rdspos' trashed my backup tape
as well...  Both reported 0 (correctly, the tape was at BOT), but any
attempt to `mt fsr' afterwards yielded a blank check.

:-(

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)


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