From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 13 7:29:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sanson.reyes.somos.net (freyes.static.inch.com [207.240.212.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D19814F74 for ; Sat, 13 Nov 1999 07:29:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fran@reyes.somos.net) Received: from tomasa (tomasa.reyes.somos.net [10.0.0.11]) by sanson.reyes.somos.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id KAA20492; Sat, 13 Nov 1999 10:27:51 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from fran@reyes.somos.net) Message-Id: <199911131527.KAA20492@sanson.reyes.somos.net> From: "Francisco Reyes" To: "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" , "rjn103s@mgr3.k12.mo.us" Date: Sat, 13 Nov 1999 10:29:33 -0500 Reply-To: "Francisco Reyes" X-Mailer: PMMail 98 Professional (2.01.1600) For Windows 98 (4.10.1998) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Tape backup: unable to backspace over one of double filemarks at EOD- opting for safety Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 12 Nov 1999 08:17:33 -0600, Support wrote: >>(sa0:ahc0:0:4:0): SCB 0x4 - timed out while idle, LASTPHASE == 0x1,SEQADDR == 0x9 >> (sa0:ahc0:0:4:0): Queuing a BDR SCB > (sa0:ahc0:0:4:0): Bus Device Reset >Message Sent > (sa0:ahc0:0:4:0): SCB 0x4 - timed out in message out phase, >SEQADDR == 0x153 >> (sa0:ahc0:0:4:0): no longer in timeout, status = 34b I have been having a simmilar error with my SCSI tape. The backups seem to work so I usually ignore the errors. >> ahc0:Issued Channel A Bus Reset. 1 SCBs aborted >> (sa0:ahc0:0:4:0): unable to backspace over one of double filemarks at EOD- >opting for safety >What is the specific problem? >Does this mean the backup is bad? Don't know the exact meaning.. just a few thoughts. Try a backup to a different tape and see if it works. Maybe the tape has a bad spot. The error seems to imply the program had problems reading a spot in the tape. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message