Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 13:20:11 -0400 From: "ben @ instantemail.net" <ben@instantemail.net> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: IDE Tape Message-ID: <10555.000601@instantemail.net>
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questions, Thursday, June 01, 2000 I have recently installed an IDE Tape drive (/dev/rwst0) on a FreeBSD 3.4R box and I am having quite a bit of difficulty getting it to work properly. An mt(1) command has been hung for several days now with no way to kill it and any additional mt(1) commands to the tape hang in the same state: ~: ps wuwax | grep "[m]t" root 16912 0.0 0.6 764 344 p2 DE+ - 0:00.00 (mt) root 19325 0.0 0.7 764 352 p1 D+ Fri08PM 0:41.50 mt rewind As root I tar'ed root's ~ ( tar -cf /dev/rswt0 /root ) which appeared to work, but when I sent `tar -tf /dev/rwst0` it lists most of the files but terminates before the end with (sorry it was several days ago when I did this and I don't want to hang a remote process trying to recreate the error) some message about "unexpected EOF" or "garbage in the archive". Can anyone send me a clue about how I should properly be accessing the tape please? (I've also had issues with make [build]world which is why I'm still on 3.4R of a few months ago but that's a separate issue and may well be operator error.) --Ben mailto:ben@instantemail.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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