Hi all, I am currently struggling to get a tape drive to work on a OpenBsd box I've recently installed, I must say I am new to this devices (tape drive) and I have not used them before.
I am running : OpenBSD XXXX.my.domain 6.3 GENERIC.MP#9 amd64 On a x86-64 Dell, the tape drive is an HP StorageWorks Ultrium 960.I haven't done much to set-up the device and it is apparently getting recognized as the command sees it: XXXX# mt -f /dev/rst0 status SCSI tape drive, residual=0 ds=3<Mounted> er=0 blocksize: 1024 (1024) density: 0 (0) I did set the block type while testing but it does not make any difference, it seems that I can write with no issues to the device but I am having issues while reading: XXXX# tar cf /dev/rst0 ./test.txt XXXX# mt -f /dev/nrst0 rewind XXXX# tar xf /dev/rst0 .out tar: Failed read on archive volume 1: Input/output error tar: Unable to recover from an archive read failure. tar: Sorry, unable to determine archive format. What can I do to diagnose the problem ? Using other utilities such as pax did not make any difference. Thanks, Pietro
