Date: Tue, 04 May 1999 16:10:07 +0100 From: Jim Chapman <jim.chapman@sympatico.ca> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ATAPI Tape & Dump Message-ID: <372F0DCF.23DE@sympatico.ca> References: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9905031227000.20321-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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Doug White wrote: > > On Sat, 1 May 1999, Jim Chapman wrote: > > > I have been struggling trying to get an ATAPI tape drive to work. I have > > found that the command > > tar -cf /dev/rwst0 <file> writes to the tape and the command > > tar -xf /dev/rwst0 <file> reads the file back and cmp says they are > > equal. > > > > The problem seems to be with dump. The command > > dump -0af /dev/rwst0 / writes to the tape, closes the drive, rewinds the > > tape and then tries to send a command to the drive. The man page for wst > > says that closing the drive will rewind the tape and unmount the drive. > > .. and it did. > > > Is this a problem with dump or is there something I need to do? > > I don't see any problem. Be more specific. > After dump writes to the tape I get dump: Closing /dev/rwst0 wst0: 29624320d total bytes transferred atapi1.1: controller not ready, status=c0 <busy,ready>, error=c0 atapi1.1: controller not ready for command (4 lines) wst0: Sense media type failed At this point the system hangs and I must reboot. I installed the system from the Walnut Creek CD, Version 3.1 Jim Chapman To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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