From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 4 13:52:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dumbo.geko.net.au (CPE-61-9-145-96.vic.bigpond.net.au [61.9.145.96]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5817E37B406 for ; Wed, 4 Jul 2001 13:52:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from renail@ausisp.net) Received: (qmail 29581 invoked from network); 4 Jul 2001 02:05:04 -0000 Received: from nm1.geko.net.au (HELO linuxbox) ([203.2.239.20]) (envelope-sender ) by dumbo.geko.net.au (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 4 Jul 2001 02:05:04 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Renai LeMay Organization: ISP Limited To: Subject: /dev/nrsa0 problem Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2001 12:09:40 +1000 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01070412094008.00195@linuxbox> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 Hi, when trying to write to our tape drive, /dev/nrsa0, which was normally working fine, I get the following error: tar: can't write to /dev/nrsa0 : Input/output error Mode Density Blocksize bpi Compression Current: 0x24:DDS-2 variable 61000 DCLZ ---------available modes--------- 0: 0x24:DDS-2 variable 61000 DCLZ 1: 0x24:DDS-2 variable 61000 DCLZ 2: 0x24:DDS-2 variable 61000 DCLZ 3: 0x24:DDS-2 variable 61000 DCLZ --------------------------------- Current Driver State: at rest. --------------------------------- File Number: 0 Record Number: 0 what does this error ususally signify? I was attempting to write to the tape with a normal tar cvf /dev/nrsa0 dirname command. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message