From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 8 12:29:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mojave.sitaranetworks.com (mojave.sitaranetworks.com [199.103.141.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81D031590B for ; Wed, 8 Dec 1999 12:24:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@mojave.sitaranetworks.com) Message-ID: <19991208152447.61061@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> Date: Wed, 8 Dec 1999 15:24:47 -0500 From: Greg Lehey To: Rodrigo Ormonde , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems with tar and 4mm DAT Reply-To: Greg Lehey References: <3.0.3.32.19991206173943.00691120@pop.aker.com.br> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19991206173943.00691120@pop.aker.com.br>; from Rodrigo Ormonde on Mon, Dec 06, 1999 at 05:39:43PM -0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday, 6 December 1999 at 17:39:43 -0200, Rodrigo Ormonde wrote: > I'm trying to use the tar command to make a backup to a 4mm DAT in a > FreeBSD 3.3 box. The tar starts the backup, but soon after it starts > writing data to the tape, it aborts with the following message (however, it > can write a few files before showing this message and I can restore these > files later): > > tar: can't write to /dev/rsa0 : Input/output error > > The command I'm using to make the backup is: > > tar cvf /dev/rsa0 /home > > The kernel messages generated when it recognizes my SCSI adapter and the > DAT device are: > > amd0: rev 0x10 int a irq 10 > on pci 0.11.0 > Waiting 15 seconds for SCSI devices to settle > sa0 at amd0 bus 0 target 2 lun 0 > sa0: Removable Sequential Access SCSI-2 device > sa0: 5.000MB/s transfers (5.000MHz, offset 8) > > Is there anything that I'm doing wrong ? Have anyone faced this problem > before ? Do you get any console messages to accompany the I/O error? They would be in /var/log/messages. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message