From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 19 16:15:49 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A9E41065B61 for ; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:15:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jaime@snowmoon.com) Received: from mail-qy0-f134.google.com (mail-qy0-f134.google.com [209.85.221.134]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41AE28FC23 for ; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:15:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jaime@snowmoon.com) Received: by qyk40 with SMTP id 40so884167qyk.3 for ; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 09:15:48 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.224.60.135 with SMTP id p7mr4091823qah.62.1237479348597; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 09:15:48 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 12:15:48 -0400 Message-ID: From: Jaime To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Formatting a tape? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:15:53 -0000 I have a DLT tape drive in a FreeBSD system. With one of the tapes, I can get "tar -cvpf /dev/sa0 -C / ." to work. With all the other tapes, I can't. Is there some kind of formatting process that I need to do? I tried "mt fsf 1" from this page: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/backups-tapebackups.html This didn't seem to work, though. Any help is appreciated, Jaime -- "To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts." -- Henry David Thoreau Tone of voice in email is misunderstood 50% of the time. Source: http://www.howtoweb.com/cgi-bin/insider.pl?zone=214061