From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 19 9: 0:39 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 718B937B401 for ; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 09:00:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from moroni.pp.asu.edu (moroni.pp.asu.edu [129.219.120.183]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7492643F75 for ; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 09:00:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from iddwb@moroni.pp.asu.edu) Received: (from iddwb@localhost) by moroni.pp.asu.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) id h2JH0Yg28324; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 10:00:34 -0700 Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 10:00:34 -0700 From: David Bear To: "Hartmann, O." Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: WRITE FILEMARKS. CDB: 10 0 0 0 1 0 MEDIUM ERROR asc:3b,0 Message-ID: <20030319100034.A28111@asu.edu> Reply-To: David.Bear@asu.edu References: <20030319125002.J458@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20030319125002.J458@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de>; from ohartman@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de on Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 01:01:54PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 01:01:54PM +0100, Hartmann, O. wrote: > Hello. > (sa0:sym0:0:5:0): WRITE FILEMARKS. CDB: 10 0 0 0 1 0 > (sa0:sym0:0:5:0): MEDIUM ERROR asc:3b,0 > (sa0:sym0:0:5:0): Sequential positioning error > (sa0:sym0:0:5:0): failed to write terminating filemark(s) > (sa0:sym0:0:5:0): tape is now frozen- use an OFFLINE, REWIND or MTEOM command to clear this state. > (sa0:sym0:0:5:0): tape is now frozen- use an OFFLINE, REWIND or MTEOM command to clear this state. > I've had strange messages like this with my tape unit as well using FreeBSD 4.4. mt rewind, mt errstat etc show me info. But, I've yet to ever determine why. The fix has always been to run a cleanning tape through the unit. OR, sometime for some strange reason the sa driver forgets things like blocksize, compression, et. al. so I have to use mt to reset those. I'm very curious how many people use dat/ait style tape units for bsd backups. I've yet to ever get a response from anyone regarding a tape 'issue' (messages like the above) > -- David Bear College of Public Programs/ASU Mail Code 0803 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message