From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 12 7:47:39 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54B6737B400 for ; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 07:47:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mx1.ovh.net (b1.ovh.net [213.186.33.51]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7085F43E64 for ; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 07:47:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pcasidy@casidy.com) Received: (qmail 11675 invoked by uid 503); 12 Jul 2002 14:47:55 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO gueway.home) (212.43.212.24) by ns0.ovh.net with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP; 12 Jul 2002 14:47:55 -0000 Received: from littleoak.home (littleoak.home [192.168.1.3]) by gueway.home (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g6CElmuF030364 for ; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 16:47:53 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from pcasidy@littleoak.home) Message-Id: <200207121447.g6CElmuF030364@gueway.home> Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 16:43:29 +0200 (CEST) From: Philippe CASIDY Subject: tar: read error on /dev/sa0 : Input/output error To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 Hi! I am trying to read back tape archives i made using a tar. These tapes are DDS-2 and DDS-4. My drive is at scbus0 target 5 lun 0 (pass1,sa0) under FreeBSD-4.6-Stable I type "tar tv" and I have tar: read error on /dev/sa0 : Input/output error mt status returns Mode Density Blocksize bpi Compression Current: 0x13:X3B5/88-185A 1024 bytes 61000 disabled ---------available modes--------- 0: 0x13:X3B5/88-185A 1024 bytes 61000 DCLZ 1: 0x13:X3B5/88-185A 1024 bytes 61000 DCLZ 2: 0x13:X3B5/88-185A 1024 bytes 61000 DCLZ 3: 0x13:X3B5/88-185A 1024 bytes 61000 DCLZ --------------------------------- Current Driver State: at rest. --------------------------------- File Number: 0 Record Number: 0 Residual Count 0 I have tried to enable and disable compression with no success. Any advices are welcome. Thanks Phil. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message