From owner-freebsd-scsi Thu Dec 26 08:52:04 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id IAA27159 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Thu, 26 Dec 1996 08:52:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id IAA27147 for ; Thu, 26 Dec 1996 08:52:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id RAA14078; Thu, 26 Dec 1996 17:51:00 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id RAA13336; Thu, 26 Dec 1996 17:51:00 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.4/8.6.9) id RAA10779; Thu, 26 Dec 1996 17:33:33 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199612261633.RAA10779@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Explain this you SCSI tape experts! :-) To: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD SCSI list) Date: Thu, 26 Dec 1996 17:33:32 +0100 (MET) Cc: kelly@fsl.noaa.gov (Sean Kelly) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <32C29D1D.41C67EA6@fsl.noaa.gov> from Sean Kelly at "Dec 26, 96 08:43:25 am" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Sean Kelly wrote: > As fate would have it, that's the very tape I need. But when I stick it > in the drive, FreeBSD reports BLANK CHECK. Doh! > > What could cause that? No idea why there's nothing on the tape, but BLANK CHECK does of course mean you're trying to read beyond the recorded medium area. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)