From owner-freebsd-scsi Wed Apr 28 0:21: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A43D315508 for ; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 00:20:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from j@uriah.heep.sax.de) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with UUCP id JAA22470 for freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 09:20:58 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from j@uriah.heep.sax.de) Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.9.3/8.9.1) id JAA37612; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 09:16:24 +0200 (MET DST) (envelope-from j) Message-ID: <19990428091622.29861@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 09:16:22 +0200 From: J Wunsch To: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: QIC tape problems on -stable (was: hanging `tar xfvR /dev/nrst0' process, can i debug it?) Reply-To: Joerg Wunsch References: <19990420023954.A20589@saturn.kn-bremen.de> <19990427212815.A674@saturn.kn-bremen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88 In-Reply-To: <19990427212815.A674@saturn.kn-bremen.de>; from Juergen Lock on Tue, Apr 27, 1999 at 09:28:15PM +0200 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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. ;-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message