From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Sep 29 10:30: 8 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B4A237B401; Sun, 29 Sep 2002 10:30:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from klima.physik.uni-mainz.de (klima.Physik.Uni-Mainz.DE [134.93.180.162]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21FA843E42; Sun, 29 Sep 2002 10:29:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ohartman@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de) Received: from klima.Physik.Uni-Mainz.DE (klima.Physik.Uni-Mainz.DE [134.93.180.162]) by klima.physik.uni-mainz.de (8.12.3/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g8THRGaq022336; Sun, 29 Sep 2002 19:27:17 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ohartman@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de) Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2002 19:27:16 +0200 (CEST) From: "Hartmann, O." To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: mt/tape media: how to reuse worn media? Message-ID: <20020929192113.B17046-100000@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Changing several parameters of a tape drive/autoloader unit seems to remains DDS-4 media unuseable. I playes around with mt blocksize, mt seteotmodel and tried to do backups either via tar or afbackup. But now several tape media seems to force the tape drive unit to recognize this medium as "Worn Media'. I tried an erase, without success. It hink it is a simple 'trick' to get back a valid tape, but how? Thanks for your mail. Oliver -- MfG O. Hartmann ohartman@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de ------------------------------------------------------------------ IT-Administration des Institutes fuer Physik der Atmosphaere (IPA) ------------------------------------------------------------------ Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz Becherweg 21 55099 Mainz Tel: +496131/3924662 (Maschinenraum) Tel: +496131/3924144 (Buero) FAX: +496131/3923532 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message