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From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@kryten.Atinc.COM>
Subject: Re: mt grief?
To: John Utz <spaz@u.washington.edu>
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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

	john,  use 'mt -f /dev/rst0 fsf 1' to awaken the mt/kernel code.  
every time i boot, i get error from the drive till i do this.  then 'mt 
-f /dev/rst0 rewind' and the thing works like a champ ;)

> 
> 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
> 
> is there something obvious that i am forgetting? is it broken? i set all 
> the rst0 and nrst0 to be readable by u, me , and my brother's cat and i 
> still get the same errors.. :-(
> 
> *******************************************************************************
>  John Utz	spaz@stein.u.washington.edu
> 	idiocy is the impulse function in the convolution of life
> 
> 

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