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From: John Utz <spaz@u.washington.edu>
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Subject: Re: mt grief?
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Hi John! 

good work on the postmastering! i have been meaning to mention that! 
thankyou!

On Tue, 4 Jul 1995, Jonathan M. Bresler wrote:

> On Tue, 4 Jul 1995, John Utz wrote:
> 
> > me again!
> > 
> > 	in a rare fit of prior planning, i actually backed up my tarfiles 
> > onto a scsi tape. Unfortuneately, i seem to be unable to read it! bummer!
> > 
> > 128: {42} tar -xv
> > st0: not ready
> > tar: can't open /dev/rst0 : Input/output error
> > 128: {43} mt rewind
> > st0: not ready
> > mt: /dev/nrst0: Input/output error
> 
> 	john,  use 'mt -f /dev/rst0 fsf 1' to awaken the mt/kernel code.  
> every time i boot, i get error from the drive till i do this.  then 'mt 
> -f /dev/rst0 rewind' and the thing works like a champ ;)
> 

for u maybe!! :-)

here is my results:
128: {6}  mt -f /dev/rst0 fsf 1
mt: /dev/rst0: Device not configured
128: {7} mt -f /dev/rst0 rewind
mt: /dev/rst0: Device not configured

and the annoying thing about this is that it actually worked on the march 
snap...oh well...too bad i had no time to keep up...

> > 
> > here is dmesg:
> > nca0 at 0x1f88-0x1f8b irq 10 on isa
> > nca0: type ProAudioSpectrum-16
> > nca0 waiting for scsi devices to settle
> > (nca0:4:0): "  " type 1 removable SCSI 1
> > st0(nca0:4:0): Sequential-Access drive offline
> > 
> > is there something obvious that i am forgetting? is it broken? i set all 
> > the rst0 and nrst0 to be readable by u, me , and my brother's cat and i 
> > still get the same errors.. :-(
> > 
> > *******************************************************************************
> >  John Utz	spaz@stein.u.washington.edu
> > 	idiocy is the impulse function in the convolution of life
> > 
> > 
> 
> Jonathan M. Bresler  jmb@kryten.atinc.com       | Analysis & Technology, Inc.  
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> 
> 

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 John Utz	spaz@stein.u.washington.edu
	idiocy is the impulse function in the convolution of life