Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 14:39:06 -0300 (ADT) From: Andrew Hamilton-Wright <andrew@qemg.org> To: Jaime <jaime@snowmoon.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Formatting a tape? Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0903191435080.1390@qemg.org> In-Reply-To: <ae4324ed0903190915u5a9ac68fw170f38354323e72e@mail.gmail.com> References: <ae4324ed0903190915u5a9ac68fw170f38354323e72e@mail.gmail.com>
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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 this is a fresh tape? Do other tapes from the same batch work? 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 If you are getting something else, I might suspect a physical media problem. I have certainly gotten the odd dud tape before. A.
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