This looks like a hardware problem to me. However, I don't have any
experience with this type of SCSI hardware.
If it were my system I'd be double-checking the tape drive setup, cabling
and termination, and then substituting other cables and SCSI controllers.
One thing that confuses me is
I have a DLT tape drive in a FreeBSD system. With one of the tapes, I
can get tar -cvpf /dev/sa0 -C / . to work. With all the other
tapes, I can't.
Is there some kind of formatting process that I need to do? I tried
mt fsf 1 from this page:
On Thu, 19 Mar 2009, Jaime wrote:
I have a DLT tape drive in a FreeBSD system. With one of the tapes, I
can get tar -cvpf /dev/sa0 -C / . to work. With all the other
tapes, I can't.
Is there some kind of formatting process that I need to do? I tried
mt fsf 1 from this page:
I assume that
I assume that this is a fresh tape? Do other tapes from the same batch
work?
Thanks for the reply. Yes, 10 new tapes. All Sony brand DLTape VS1
on the box. (Only one t. Damn marketers.) They all have this
symptom.
What happens if you use dd to try and write to the tape?
I'll give it a
On Mar 19, 2009, at 9:15 AM, Jaime wrote:
I have a DLT tape drive in a FreeBSD system. With one of the tapes, I
can get tar -cvpf /dev/sa0 -C / . to work. With all the other
tapes, I can't.
Is there some kind of formatting process that I need to do? I tried
mt fsf 1 from this page:
What's
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Andrew Hamilton-Wright and...@qemg.org wrote:
What happens if you use dd to try and write to the tape?
The command
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sa0 count=8
should print out:
8+0 records in
8+0 records out
I tried this and the output was:
8+0
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 12:15:48PM -0400, Jaime wrote:
I have a DLT tape drive in a FreeBSD system. With one of the tapes, I
can get tar -cvpf /dev/sa0 -C / . to work. With all the other
tapes, I can't.
Is there some kind of formatting process that I need to do? I tried
mt fsf 1 from
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Michael L. Squires mi...@siralan.org wrote:
Have you looked at /var/log/messages? I've found error messages written
there when trying to write to a tape which showed that I needed to change
the block size.
Good idea, but sadly there is nothing useful there.
mt rewind should suffice. AFAIK DLT tapes doesn't need to be formatted
On Thu, 19 Mar 2009, Jaime wrote:
I have a DLT tape drive in a FreeBSD system. With one of the tapes, I
can get tar -cvpf /dev/sa0 -C / . to work. With all the other
tapes, I can't.
Is there some kind of formatting
Try this :
mt -f /dev/nsa0 rewind
mt -f /dev/nsa0 weof 1
mt -f /dev/nsa0 rewind
On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 12:15 -0400, Jaime wrote:
I have a DLT tape drive in a FreeBSD system. With one of the tapes, I
can get tar -cvpf /dev/sa0 -C / . to work. With all the other
tapes, I can't.
Is there
On Thu, 19 Mar 2009, Jaime wrote:
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Andrew Hamilton-Wright and...@qemg.org wrote:
What happens if you use dd to try and write to the tape?
The command
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sa0 count=8
should print out:
8+0 records in
8+0 records out
I
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 7:37 PM, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote:
And the device acts flaky. That screams SCSI termination problem to me.
That would also be consistent with most/all of the tapes failing, because
it's not the tapes.
I've checked the termination more times than I can
On Thu, 19 Mar 2009, Jaime wrote:
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 7:37 PM, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote:
And the device acts flaky. That screams SCSI termination problem to me.
That would also be consistent with most/all of the tapes failing, because
it's not the tapes.
I've checked the
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