From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 27 13:51:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cyclops.servetheweb.com (cyclops.servetheweb.com [208.252.182.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C98037B491 for ; Thu, 27 Sep 2001 13:51:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wolverine.rndassociates.com (wolverine.servetheweb.com [208.252.182.74]) by cyclops.servetheweb.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA11611 for ; Thu, 27 Sep 2001 15:50:09 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from coeus@servetheweb.com) Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20010927152316.02bc8938@mail.rndassociates.com> X-Sender: derrick@mail.rndassociates.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 15:56:51 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: "Derrick T. Woolworth" Subject: Tape Media Problems Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed 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 I have a Tekram DC395U SCSI Adapter and a Seagate DAT DDS-4 06240-XXX 8040. When I attempt to write a tape block identifier to the first block I get an i/o error. mt: /dev/nsa0: Input/output error or sometimes mt: /dev/nsa0: Device not configured And the same when I attempt to mt fsf 1 Running tar cf /dev/rsa0 (sa0:tekram_trm0:0:2:0): unable to set fixed blocksize to 1024 (sa0:tekram_trm0:0:2:0): failed to write terminating filemark(s) (sa0:tekram_trm0:0:2:0): tape is now frozen- use an OFFLINE, REWIND or MTEOM command to clear this state. It seems to write a couple of blocks of data and then exits with a broken pipe and fails. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks, D -- Derrick T. Woolworth, President R&D Associates, Inc. (913) 402-7010 x4308 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message