From owner-freebsd-scsi Tue Nov 12 11:51:29 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34C3337B401 for ; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 11:51:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2310843E4A for ; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 11:51:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from j@uriah.heep.sax.de) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with UUCP id UAA21648; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 20:50:05 +0100 (CET) Received: from uriah.heep.sax.de (localhost.heep.sax.de [127.0.0.1]) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id gACJmXWc030108; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 20:48:34 +0100 (MET) (envelope-from j@uriah.heep.sax.de) Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id gACJmXFc030107; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 20:48:33 +0100 (MET) (envelope-from j) Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 20:48:33 +0100 (MET) Message-Id: <200211121948.gACJmXFc030107@uriah.heep.sax.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Newsreader: knews 1.0b.1 Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E References: <00ec01c28997$fc2511b0$c801a8c0@vsivyoung> From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Subject: Re: SCSI tape error - End-of-data detected X-Original-Newsgroups: local.freebsd.scsi To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Cc: "Miroslav Pendev" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "Miroslav Pendev" wrote: > (sa0:ahc0:0:4:0): WRITE FILEMARKS. CDB: 10 0 0 0 1 0 > (sa0:ahc0:0:4:0): BLANK CHECK req sz: 0 (decimal) asc:0,5 > (sa0:ahc0:0:4:0): End-of-data detected > (sa0:ahc0:0:4:0): failed to write terminating filemark(s) I can't seem to find anything in the standard that warrants a blank check during a write filemarks. IMHO, it doesn't have much sense either, a write operation should never complain about a blank medium. Please obtain the SCSI reference manual for your drive, and see what they're writing about the write filemarks command. -- cheers, J"org .-.-. --... ...-- -.. . DL8DTL http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message