Hi Doug! On 1 Apr 02 at 17:46 you wrote:
> So for the non-rewinding tape device I put in /dev/nsa0, which seems to > make sense after reading the mt and sa man pages (I know, I shouldn't be > RTFM'ing before hand, but oh well ;). I've tried both /dev/nsa0 and > /dev/nrsa0 -- both failed! /dev/nsa0 works fine here with FreeBSD and SCSI DDS-3 drive. > So, when I try to access the drive by running amflush I get this kernel > message: > > (sa0:ahc0:0:6:0): tape is now frozen- use an OFFLINE, REWIND or MTEOM > command to clear this state. When I get this message it's always one of two things: - tape is bad and needs to be thrown away - tape drive needs cleaning > DUMP: Dumping /etc to /dev/nsa0 > DUMP: bad sblock magic number > DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted. Bad sblock magic number? Are you sure that /etc is a separate UFS partition? If it's just a subdirectory on / partition, it cannot be dumped. -- Toomas Aas | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.raad.tartu.ee/~toomas/ * Dyslexics of the world, untie!
