From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 2 14: 0:21 2001 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 725C037B401 for ; Fri, 2 Feb 2001 14:00:03 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f12Lxx222310; Fri, 2 Feb 2001 15:59:59 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 15:59:59 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Murray Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how to mount a tape drive? Message-ID: <20010202155959.B20020@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20010202130432.A357@converging.net> <20010202141241.A20020@dan.emsphone.com> <20010202141814.C357@converging.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.14i In-Reply-To: <20010202141814.C357@converging.net>; from "Murray" on Fri Feb 2 14:18:14 GMT 2001 X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Feb 02), Murray said: > I tried the tcopy /dev/rsa0 and received the following errors: > > file 0: block size 65536: records 0 to 131 > file 0: block size 57334: tcopy, read error, file 0, record 132, > Input/output error > > I tried a different tape and tar -cf /dev/rsa0 /var. This seemed to > work but when I tcopied, I received the same error as above. Am I to > assume that my T20 has shuffled off his mortal coil? It might just need a cleaning; also check your console output. Any time you get an I/O error, you should get a more verbose error logged to the console/dmesg. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message