From owner-freebsd-current Mon Sep 9 22:15:37 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA14996 for current-outgoing; Mon, 9 Sep 1996 22:15:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mx.serv.net (mx.serv.net [199.201.191.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA14984 for ; Mon, 9 Sep 1996 22:15:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from MindBender.serv.net by mx.serv.net (8.7.5/SERV Revision: 2.30 † id WAA16563; Mon, 9 Sep 1996 22:15:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.HeadCandy.com (michaelv@localhost.HeadCandy.com [127.0.0.1]) by MindBender.serv.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA12396; Mon, 9 Sep 1996 22:10:32 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199609100510.WAA12396@MindBender.serv.net> X-Authentication-Warning: MindBender.serv.net: Host michaelv@localhost.HeadCandy.com [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: Richard J Kuhns cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SCSI tape drive problem in -current In-reply-to: Your message of Mon, 09 Sep 96 15:06:36 -0500. <199609092006.PAA11006@watson.grauel.com> Date: Mon, 09 Sep 1996 22:10:32 -0700 From: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >I then tried to reload some stuff from my /usr backup (Infocom games, as it >happens) -- no luck. The tape positions itself when I put it in, but when >I run "tar -tvf /dev/rst0", the light on the tape drive comes on for a >fraction of a second, and that's it -- I get my prompt back. There are no >error messages anywhere; tar doesn't complain, there's nothing on the >console, and nothing new under /var/log. Maybe you have more than one EOF or EOT marker on the tape, and you need to scan past the first one. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael L. VanLoon michaelv@MindBender.serv.net --< Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free un*x >-- NetBSD working ports: 386+PC, Mac 68k, Amiga, Atari 68k, HP300, Sun3, Sun4/4c/4m, DEC MIPS, DEC Alpha, PC532, VAX, MVME68k, arm32... NetBSD ports in progress: PICA, others... -----------------------------------------------------------------------------