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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.syd.connect.com.au!news.bri.connect.com.au!fjholden.OntheNet.com.au!not-for-mail From: Tony Griffiths <tonyg@OntheNet.com.au> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Problem with scsi tape drive Date: Sun, 13 Apr 1997 11:05:44 +1000 Organization: On the Net (ISP on the Gold Coast, Australia) Lines: 26 Message-ID: <33503168.3A08@OntheNet.com.au> References: <5ijqlg$gki$1@csnews.cs.colorado.edu> Reply-To: tonyg@OntheNet.com.au NNTP-Posting-Host: swanee.nt.com.au Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (WinNT; I) To: Alan T Krantz <atk@alumni.cs.Colorado.EDU> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38973 Alan T Krantz wrote: > > I am having a bit of problem with a scsi tape drive - I'm not sure if > the problem is specific to the drive or software so here is the detail: > > The drive is a segate tst8000 the software is freebsd 2.0 > (I know I know - well the drive was all i could afford and I'll > upgrade the os when I can do a fullbackup). > > I started a tar and realize that i didn't include all files (/ doesn't > follow mounted devices) so I stopped it with ^C. Well, now whenever > the tar reaches the point where it stopped the first time I get: > tar: can't write to /dev/rst0 : Input/output error Maybe tar is trying to "append" the the end of the existing aborted save and so is getting the error! I would re-initialise the tape via- # mt -f /dev/nrst0 rew # mt -f /dev/nrst0 weof 2 # mt -f /dev/nrst0 rew before trying to save again! Tony