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Date:      Sat, 18 Sep 1999 05:52:11 GMT
From:      mike@sentex.net (Mike Tancsa)
To:        pryker@skynetweb.com (Phillip Ryker)
Cc:        freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Tape Drive Insanity!!
Message-ID:  <37e327c8.185315900@mail.sentex.net>
In-Reply-To: <MAIL37E1F80B.A91138C8@skynetweb.com>
References:  <MAIL37E1F80B.A91138C8@skynetweb.com>

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>I read through the handbook and I did exactly what it asks.  I did a:
>
>        mt fsf 1
>
>And I got the following error:
>
>        mt: /dev/nrsa0: fsf: Input/output error

If there is nothing on the tape, you will get that error.

>
>And the /var/log/messages reports:
>
>        Sep 17 14:38:06 ns5 /kernel: (sa0:ahc0:0:4:0): SPACE. CDB: 11 1
>0
>0 1 0
>Sep 17 14:38:06 ns5 /kernel: (sa0:ahc0:0:4:0): BLANK CHECK req sz: 1
>(decimal) asc:0,5
>Sep 17 14:38:06 ns5 /kernel: (sa0:ahc0:0:4:0): End-of-data detected
>
>ALso, when I try to run a dump as follows:
>
>        dump -0u /etc


Is /etc really on a separate partition ?

try instead to dump a partition

	---Mike


	---Mike
Mike Tancsa  (mdtancsa@sentex.net)		
Sentex Communications Corp,   		
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
"Given enough time, 100 monkeys on 100 routers could setup a national IP network." (KDW2)


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