On Monday, Apr 11, 2005, at 20:25 US/Central, L. V. Lammert wrote:
On Mon, 11 Apr 2005, Eric Wilson wrote:If the drive is good, I believe the sense code is telling us the drive believes the tape media is blank:Darn, makes sense to me! It would be great if somebody could confirm, however.
The assumptions are that the drive is good and all the settings are correct. There could be data on the tape and the drive just isn't picking it up for whatever reason.
Came across this thread via Google which mentions that the logical block size may be the reason:
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-help/1999/03/09/0000.html http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-help/1999/03/10/0001.html
Ah, the joys of working with tape.
Regards, - Robert http://www.cwelug.org/downloads Help others get OpenSource software. Distribute FLOSS for Windows, Linux, *BSD, and MacOS X with BitTorrent
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