From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 8 19:23:24 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA22228 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 8 Feb 1997 19:23:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from wakko.gil.net (keithl@wakko.gil.net [207.100.79.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA22223 for ; Sat, 8 Feb 1997 19:23:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (keithl@localhost) by wakko.gil.net (8.8.5/8.8.2) with SMTP id WAA22449; Sat, 8 Feb 1997 22:27:33 -0500 Date: Sat, 8 Feb 1997 22:27:32 -0500 (EST) From: Keith Leonard To: Mark Hannon cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Floppy tape backup In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 8 Feb 1997, Mark Hannon wrote: > I would recommend that you use QIC80 tapes in the drive and see if > it works. I have a Conner420R but it will only work with standard > QIC80 tapes and not with the QIC-wide style tapes. > > Rgds/Mark Thanks for the suggestion Mark, Tried it this afternoon - negative. The drive won't even give the damn thing a tweek. the system just sits there. I did finally try something using tar and ft: Besides the numerous timeouts I got FT0: unrecoverable write error on block 3264 since I don't see anyway to specify a lenght or tracks or density with ft I have no idea for a solution ( did try dump with parameters to no avail). I don't even seem to have a way of checking if anything was saved (even though the tape drive whired and buzzed.) At the above error the console freezes up (except for the continuous - Timeouts) and I finally have to reboot to get it back. I can't even kill the ft process from another console??? Thanks for the time - I think I'll give up on this one (until I can afford a SCSI tape unit that is supported - sometime next century ;) ) Keith keithl@wakko.gil.net _________________________________________________________________________ Laugh it up while you can, monkey boy. - John Warfin (Dr. Emilio Lazardo) -------------------------------------------------------------------------