Re: Network booting?

[pcasidy]

On 16 Dec, Eric F Crist wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I looked in the handbook, and didn't see anything about doing a network
> boot on a PC from a freebsd server.  Is this at all a possibility?
> 

Besides the handbook there are a lot of useful books and articles:
http://www.freebsd.org/docs.html#articles

search for the PXE Booting article and look at all the available
articles ;)

Phil.

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Cant write filemarks on DDS-4 Tapes

[pcasidy]

[As posted on freebsd-scsi]

Hello

I currently face a strange problems.

I use several type of tapes; from 1Gb to 20Gb tapes.
I can read and write from of them but DDS-4 (20Gb)!

I can read DDS-4 btu cannot write on them.

When I try to write on a DDS-4 I encounter an error:
[gueway] ~# tar c /
tar: Removing leading `/' from member names
tar: /dev/sa0: Wrote only 0 of 10240 bytes
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

and /var/log/messages says:
Jun  5 12:28:09 gueway /kernel: (sa0:sym0:0:5:0): WRITE FILEMARKS. CDB: 10 0 0 0 1 0 
Jun  5 12:28:09 gueway /kernel: (sa0:sym0:0:5:0): MEDIUM ERROR info:1 asc:c,0
Jun  5 12:28:09 gueway /kernel: (sa0:sym0:0:5:0): Write error
Jun  5 12:28:09 gueway /kernel: (sa0:sym0:0:5:0): failed to write terminating 
filemark(s)

every time a filemark has to be written, I have the same error.

For information, mt status gives:
[gueway] ~# mt status
Mode  Density  Blocksize  bpi  Compression
Current:  0x26:DDS-4   variable   97000DCLZ
-available modes-
0:0x26:DDS-4   variable   97000DCLZ
1:0x26:DDS-4   variable   97000DCLZ
2:0x26:DDS-4   variable   97000DCLZ
3:0x26:DDS-4   variable   97000DCLZ
-
Current Driver State: at rest.
-
File Number: 0  Record Number: 0Residual Count 0

Changing comp to off, or blocksize to 1024 does not help.

I do not understand why i can write on DDS-2 or DDS-3 but not on DDS-4
(i used to several months ago).

I need your help ;)

Thanks

Phil.

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