From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 30 10:43:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.utexas.edu (wb3-a.mail.utexas.edu [128.83.126.138]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 86D4937B790 for ; Thu, 30 Mar 2000 10:43:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from oscars@mail.utexas.edu) Received: (qmail 26684 invoked by uid 0); 30 Mar 2000 18:43:48 -0000 Received: from chepe.cc.utexas.edu (HELO chepe) (128.83.135.25) by umbs-smtp-3 with SMTP; 30 Mar 2000 18:43:48 -0000 Message-Id: <4.2.2.20000330123843.00bb39c0@mail.utexas.edu> X-Sender: oscars@mail.utexas.edu X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.2 Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 12:42:33 -0600 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Oscar Ricardo Silva Subject: Tape in "frozen" state? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've been attempting to run and install Amanda for backups. Just now, while trying to run some checks, I received the following error: (sa0:ahc0:0:6:0): tape is now frozen- use an OFFLINE, REWIND or MTEOM command to clear this state. When I attempt to issue the "mt -f /dev/nrsa0 status" command, I get: Mar 30 12:41:05 /kernel: (sa0:ahc0:0:6:0): tape is now frozen- use an OFFLINE, REWIND or MTEOM command to clear this state. I have tried "mt rewind", "mt eom", "mt offline", different tapes, even rebooting the machine, but nothing works. Any ideas? Suggestions? Oscar "Don't believe the hype" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message