From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 20 09:11:52 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA22318 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 09:11:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from kitsune.swcp.com (swcp.com [198.59.115.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA22300 for ; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 09:11:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msommer@argotsoft.com) Received: from argotsoft.com (argotsoft.com [198.59.115.127]) by kitsune.swcp.com (8.8.8/1.2.3) with ESMTP id KAA18031; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 10:11:40 -0700 (MST) Received: (from msommer@localhost) by argotsoft.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id KAA28285; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 10:10:36 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from msommer) From: "Mark J. Sommer" Message-Id: <199901201710.KAA28285@argotsoft.com> Subject: Re: Amrecover error message deciphered. In-Reply-To: <36A5FED5.2522261@tdx.co.uk> from Karl Pielorz at "Jan 20, 99 04:05:41 pm" To: kpielorz@tdx.co.uk (Karl Pielorz) Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 10:10:36 -0700 (MST) Cc: freebsd@netsys.h, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > "Mark J. Sommer" wrote: > > > Sorry to interject, but this may or may not be of use. > > Please do! - I was hoping someone would... If you'd seen the previous > messages, density codes etc. have been mentioned - I had a similar problem > _ages_ ago (with a drive I no longer had), so long ago I forgot how I fixed it > :) My only experience with tape problems has been with 1/4" QIC and DAT. I've always solved them by using /dev/rst?.1 (usually because .1 seems to be correct for the block size, fixed, 512, etc) and experimenting with the denisty codes until I hit the right one. 0x13 for DAT seems to always be right for DAT, QIC usually takes a bit of effort to figure out. I wish I could be of more help, but that's the best I can do for now. I will mention it usually takes me several days to know when I've got the right combo. With an HP SureStore DAT (8 GB compressed), I found that /dev/nrst1.1 for amanda with a density code worked fine. Often, the backup seemed to go just fine, but after taking the tape out and putting it back in, I found that amanda could tell that the tape was an amanda tape. Doing the following: amlabel -f