From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 19 17:45:09 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 8BF81106566C for ; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:45:09 +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 536728FC12 for ; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:45:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jaime@snowmoon.com) Received: by qyk40 with SMTP id 40so952150qyk.3 for ; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 10:45:08 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.224.74.65 with SMTP id t1mr4175836qaj.335.1237484708799; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 10:45:08 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 13:45:08 -0400 Message-ID: From: Jaime To: Andrew Hamilton-Wright Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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 17:45:10 -0000 > I assume that this is a fresh tape? Do other tapes from the same batch > work? Thanks for the reply. Yes, 10 new tapes. All Sony brand "DLTape VS1" on the box. (Only one "t". Damn marketers.) They all have this symptom. > What happens if you use dd to try and write to the tape? I'll give it a try. I've only used tar and mt so far. Thanks, 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