Date: Wed, 20 Jan 99 10:04:02 -0500 From: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd@netsys.hn> To: Karl Pielorz <kpielorz@tdx.co.uk> Cc: Alexandre Oliva <oliva@dcc.unicamp.br>, John Hennessy <johnh@paradox.net.au>, "amanda-users@amanda.org" <amanda-users@amanda.org>, "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Amrecover error message deciphered. Message-ID: <199901201603.KAA09354@mail.netsys.hn>
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-- [ From: FreeBSD Questions * EMC.Ver #2.5.02 ] --
> > tar: can't write to /dev/nrst0 : Input/output error
> > 9:37 mail: {102}
> >
> > In /var/log/messages:
> >
> > Jan 20 09:37:22 mail /kernel: st0(ahc0:1:0): Deferred Error: MEDIUM
ERROR
> > info:2e000 asc:3b,0 Sequential positioning error
> > Jan 20 09:37:22 mail /kernel: st0(ahc0:1:0): MEDIUM ERROR info:200 asc:
50,1
> > Write append position error
>
> OK, we're getting somewhere - it's not Amanda that's the problem, it's the
> drive / tape / scsi setup...
>
> Try another tape with the tar command (Medium error usually means what it
says
> - theres a problem with your media, i.e. tape).
Here we go again with another tape:
9:54 mail: {117} tar cvf /dev/nrst0 /usr/home/quintana/documents
tar: Removing leading / from absolute path names in the archive.
usr/home/quintana/documents/
usr/home/quintana/documents/admon.doc
9:55 mail: {118} mt rewind
9:55 mail: {119} tar tvf /dev/nrst0
drwxr-xr-x quintana/users 0 May 28 10:30 1998
usr/home/quintana/documents/
-rwxr-xr-x quintana/users 226816 May 28 10:34 1998
usr/home/quintana/documents/admon.doc
9:55 mail: {120}
Huh? and now what is the problem? This test worked fine.
> Karl
Pablo Quintana
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