From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 5 14:47:02 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA14084 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 5 Jul 1996 14:47:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from guilder.ucdavis.edu (root@guilder.ucdavis.edu [128.120.8.181]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA14078 for ; Fri, 5 Jul 1996 14:46:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rosarita.engr.ucdavis.edu by guilder.ucdavis.edu (8.7.5/UCD3.5.7) id OAA03389; Fri, 5 Jul 1996 14:46:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tehama.engr.ucdavis.edu by rosarita.engr.ucdavis.edu (4.1/EACS-2.1) id AA08449; Fri, 5 Jul 96 14:46:53 PDT Received: by tehama.engr.ucdavis.edu (920330.SGI/920502.SGI.AUTO) for @rosarita.engr.ucdavis.edu:questions@freebsd.org id AA15526; Fri, 5 Jul 96 14:52:14 -0700 Date: Fri, 5 Jul 96 14:52:14 -0700 From: white@tehama.engr.ucdavis.edu (Michael White) Message-Id: <9607052152.AA15526@tehama.engr.ucdavis.edu> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Problem with ft on tape backup. Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I was attempting to back up my system with ft (as described in the man pages) and the program hung. And I mean really hung. I wasn't able to terminate the process with a "kill -9 pid_number". I had to reboot to terminate the process. The error message on the console read: ft0: unrecoverable write error on block 3200 I am running FreeBSD 2.1.0 (<- I think... I did a net install in April '96) and my tape drive is an iomega DITTO 420 (QIC 80) and the tape is a DC-2120XL QIC80 formatted mini data cartridge. The drive is daisy chained with the two floppies. The tape was brand new (just out of the wrapper). What I did to try to solve the problem: When I saw that the tar was hung and that there was an error on the console, I tried to ^C out. Failing that I tried to kill the process. The ft process would not die (I did manage to kill all of the parent processes, including the login... And I was root at the time). A possibly related incident (which if anyone knows if it is a problem or not I'd like to know) is when I not ft the tape (to try to see the label) I just get: " " and the creation date (it was supposed to have the label: "/ backup". It also will give the following 3 lines before and after the label: ftc0: output ready timeout ftc0: input ready timeout ftc0: input ready timeout Is this indicating a problem? Anyone know what is going on? Do I need a separate format command for the tape before I try to tar something on it? I have searched the faq, Handbook and the archives of mailing lists on the Web and can find very little about this tape driver, so if I have missed something, please let me know. Also, one last thing, is this the type of thing one would submit as a bug or not. I have not yet done so, but can file a bug report if people think that it fits the area of problem reports. Sorry this is so long. Thanks in advance for any help. - Mike ======================================================================== | | | _ | Michael D. White _______|/V\|_______ University of California, Davis X------------[_\(.)/_]------------X Dept. of Mechanical & Aeronautical Engineering /o`~|~`o\ white@halfdome.engr.ucdavis.edu O H O http://www.engr.ucdavis.edu/~mdwhite http://www-mae.engr.ucdavis.edu/CFD/white ========================================================================