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Date:      Thu, 22 Mar 2001 10:30:39 -0800 (PST)
From:      Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
To:        "John R. Shannon" <john@johnrshannon.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Multiple dumps to one tape
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.21.0103221029170.14443-100000@zeppo.feral.com>
In-Reply-To: <01032108471501.02015@pablo.johnrshannon.com>

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(this should be under scsi@freebsd.org)

Hmm. That's a new one to me. What's the EOT model (see mt(1)) set to?


> 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.
> 
> 


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