From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 19 19:30:23 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA09279 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 19 Sep 1996 19:30:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail1.inlink.com (mail1.inlink.com [206.196.96.4]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA09250 for ; Thu, 19 Sep 1996 19:30:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from thor.inlink.com ([206.196.126.220]) by mail1.inlink.com (8.7.5/V8) with SMTP id VAA27959 for ; Thu, 19 Sep 1996 21:31:43 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199609200231.VAA27959@mail1.inlink.com> Comments: Authenticated sender is From: "Timothy P. Layton, Sr." Organization: Global Solutions Corporation To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 19:26:54 +0000 Subject: error on HP DAT when doing an erase Reply-to: tlayton@global-sol.com X-Confirm-Reading-To: tlayton@global-sol.com X-pmrqc: 1 Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v2.42) Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I am doing a mt -f /dev/rst0 erase and get the following errors: sto(aha0:4:0) timed out sto(aha0:4:0) ABORTED COMMAND asc:4e,0 Overlapped commands attempted mt: /dev/rst0: erase: Input/Output error The right led on the front of the HP SureStore 5000 continues to blink as if the tape is actually erasing. At the time of me sending this message it had been blinking for about 15 minutes. Any clues ? My goal is to perform a tape rotation in my backup scheme. I manually backed a file system up earlier in the evening and wanted to erase the tape and start fresh. I backed up with the dump command. Do I need to issue the erase command or is there a way to have dump overwrite what is on the tape ? Thanks Tim- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Timothy P. Layton, Sr. Master CNE, MCP SCO Unix ACE IBM LAN Server Engineer http://www.global-sol.com voice 314.298.0873 Fax: 314.298.8482 pager: 314.836.4886 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=