From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Nov 5 02:06:02 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id CAA29997 for hardware-outgoing; Wed, 5 Nov 1997 02:06:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware) Received: from hawk.gnome.co.uk (gnome.gw.cerbernet.co.uk [193.243.224.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id CAA29991 for ; Wed, 5 Nov 1997 02:05:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jacs@hawk.gnome.co.uk) Received: from hawk.gnome.co.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hawk.gnome.co.uk (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA00479 for ; Wed, 5 Nov 1997 10:05:53 GMT Message-Id: <199711051005.KAA00479@hawk.gnome.co.uk> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Seagate 24GB DAT drive Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 05 Nov 1997 10:05:52 +0000 From: Chris Stenton Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I have just got hold of a Seagate 24GB DAT drive and have come across an interesting problem in that it works fine for blank tapes and can read tapes produced on my old HP DAT but I can't write onto any of these old tapes. Even mt erase does not work. It seems that if there is data on the tape it looks for a special marker at the beginning of the tape; if it does not find it it gives a media error. Is this a problem with all Seagate DAT drives or just the 24GB version? Chris