From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 4 05:27:33 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id FAA23904 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 4 Jul 1995 05:27:33 -0700 Received: from sun001.sil.com (sun001.sil.com [193.195.22.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id FAA23896 for ; Tue, 4 Jul 1995 05:27:12 -0700 Received: by sun001.sil.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA16040; Tue, 4 Jul 95 13:25:47 GMT Date: Tue, 4 Jul 1995 13:21:49 +0000 (GMT) From: Barry Perryman Subject: Re: mt grief? To: John Utz Cc: FreeBSD questions In-Reply-To: Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 4 Jul 1995, John Utz wrote: > me again! > > in a rare fit of prior planning, i actually backed up my tarfiles > onto a scsi tape. Unfortuneately, i seem to be unable to read it! bummer! > > 128: {42} tar -xv > st0: not ready > tar: can't open /dev/rst0 : Input/output error > 128: {43} mt rewind > st0: not ready > mt: /dev/nrst0: Input/output error > > here is dmesg: > nca0 at 0x1f88-0x1f8b irq 10 on isa > nca0: type ProAudioSpectrum-16 > nca0 waiting for scsi devices to settle > (nca0:4:0): " " type 1 removable SCSI 1 > st0(nca0:4:0): Sequential-Access drive offline > hi, I had the same problem when I tried to install FreeBSD 2.0R with my archive viper. I found that if I had the tape locked in the drive at bootup then I would get the same sort of error, st0 not ready, but it was fine if I booted up without the tape in the drive. I think that you can get round it by removing the tape and then typing: mt -f /dev/rst0 rewind You will get an error out of this but I seem to remember it resetting my tape drive. HTH Barry