From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 19 17:45:09 2009 Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> 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 <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; 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 <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:45:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jaime@snowmoon.com) Received: by qyk40 with SMTP id 40so952150qyk.3 for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; 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: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0903191435080.1390@qemg.org> References: <ae4324ed0903190915u5a9ac68fw170f38354323e72e@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0903191435080.1390@qemg.org> Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 13:45:08 -0400 Message-ID: <ae4324ed0903191045m4dfbb4c0v5d75beede772e256@mail.gmail.com> From: Jaime <jaime@snowmoon.com> To: Andrew Hamilton-Wright <andrew@qemg.org> 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 <freebsd-questions.freebsd.org> List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions> List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=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