From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Mar 22 8:44:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mail.johnrshannon.com (mail.johnrshannon.com [208.141.182.175]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACAB537B71A for ; Thu, 22 Mar 2001 08:44:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from john@johnrshannon.com) Received: from pablo.johnrshannon.com (pablo.johnrshannon.com [192.168.1.3]) by mail.johnrshannon.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 133961D889 for ; Thu, 22 Mar 2001 09:44:35 -0700 (MST) Received: (from john@localhost) by pablo.johnrshannon.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f2MGiYh00349 for freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 22 Mar 2001 09:44:34 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from john) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: "John R. Shannon" Reply-To: john@johnrshannon.com To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Multiple dumps to one tape Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 09:44:34 -0700 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01032108471501.02015@pablo.johnrshannon.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Organization: johnrshannon.com Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Is there a known problem with writing multiple archives to a Tecmar NS20 tapedrive Travan TR5)? I've tried two different units and get the same results. /sbin/dump -0a -f /dev/nrsa0 /dev/da0s1a DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Mon Mar 19 05:27:06 2001 DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch DUMP: Dumping /dev/da0s1a (/) to /dev/nrsa0 DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files] DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories] DUMP: estimated 37811 tape blocks. DUMP: dumping (Pass III) [directories] DUMP: dumping (Pass IV) [regular files] DUMP: DUMP: 37814 tape blocks on 1 volume DUMP: finished in 31 seconds, throughput 1219 KBytes/sec DUMP: Closing /dev/nrsa0 DUMP: DUMP IS DONE /sbin/dump -0a -f /dev/nrsa0 /dev/da0s1e DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Mon Mar 19 05:27:38 2001 DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch DUMP: Dumping /dev/da0s1e (/usr) to /dev/nrsa0 DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files] DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories] DUMP: estimated 3647150 tape blocks. DUMP: write error 20 blocks into volume 1 DUMP: Do you want to restart?: ("yes" or "no") no DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted. And in /var/log/messages: Mar 19 05:27:51 pablo /kernel: (sa0:adv0:0:4:0): WRITE(06). CDB: a 0 0 28 0 0 Mar 19 05:27:51 pablo /kernel: (sa0:adv0:0:4:0): ILLEGAL REQUEST asc:50,0 Mar 19 05:27:51 pablo /kernel: (sa0:adv0:0:4:0): Write append error OS : FreeBSD-Stable CPU: Pentium III/Pentium III Xeon/Celeron (999.53-MHz 686-class CPU) Tapedrive: Tecmar Travan NS20 AdvanSys SCSI Host Adapter handling tapedrive Thank you for any guidance. -- John R. Shannon john@johnrshannon.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message