From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 2 20:46:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDAB837B479 for ; Thu, 2 Nov 2000 20:46:54 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id eA34kqi12688; Thu, 2 Nov 2000 22:46:52 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 22:46:52 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Alan Batie Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Writing to tape gets Invalid Argument Message-ID: <20001102224652.B1613@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20001102204405.A880@agora.rdrop.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.11i In-Reply-To: <20001102204405.A880@agora.rdrop.com>; from "Alan Batie" on Thu Nov 2 20:44:06 GMT 2000 X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Nov 02), Alan Batie said: > I'm trying to backup a 4.1-RELEASE system to a : > > sa1: Removable Sequential Access SCSI-2 device > sa1: 20.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 8, 16bit) (20/40G DAT) > > After about 370Meg, I get: > > Backing up the system... > tar: Removing leading / from absolute path names in the archive. > tar: Removing leading / from absolute links > Total bytes written: 369643520 > tar (child): can't write to /dev/rsa1 : Invalid argument > > I used ktrace to verify that it is the write system call to the tape > that gets the error... The tape driver will usually log a more detailed message to the console and /var/log/messages; if you get a "MEDIUM ERROR", it's probably a bad tape. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message