From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 14 22:38: 4 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail4.kscable.com (fe4.rdc-kc.rr.com [24.94.163.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52C7A37B405 for ; Sun, 14 Apr 2002 22:38:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from yahoo.com ([24.94.207.167]) by mail4.kscable.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.537.53); Mon, 15 Apr 2002 00:36:11 -0500 Message-ID: <3CBA673B.2030600@yahoo.com> Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 00:38:03 -0500 From: "JustinL. Boss" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020314 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: backup to /dev/ast0 get Input/output error Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is probably something simple but I can't figure it out. The tape seams to be working when using mt but when I use tar I get: mt -f /dev/ast0 status .. Mode Density Blocksize bpi Compression Current: 0x01:X3.22-1983 512 bytes 800 none ---------available modes--------- 0: default variable 0 none 1: default variable 0 none 2: default variable 0 none 3: default variable 0 none --------------------------------- File Number: 0 Record Number: 0 Residual Count 0 tar -zpcf /dev/ast0 /home tar: Removing leading / from absolute path names in the archive. tar (child): can't write to /dev/ast0 : Input/output error Thanks for your help. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message