From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 7 17:28:11 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA29442 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 7 Apr 1997 17:28:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from xmission.xmission.com (softweyr@xmission.xmission.com [198.60.22.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA29389 for ; Mon, 7 Apr 1997 17:27:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from softweyr@localhost) by xmission.xmission.com (8.8.5/8.7.5) id SAA15295; Mon, 7 Apr 1997 18:27:17 -0600 (MDT) From: Wes Peters - Softweyr LLC Message-Id: <199704080027.SAA15295@xmission.xmission.com> Subject: Re: How do I "format" 4 mm DAT tapes To: bemfica@militzer.me.tuns.ca (Antonio Bemfica) Date: Mon, 7 Apr 1997 18:27:14 -0600 (MDT) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Antonio Bemfica" at Apr 4, 97 04:46:50 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I have an HP C1533A tape unit installed on a FreeBSD 2.1.5 machine. It > works fine most of the time, but it fails to recognize certain tapes. A > simple 'mt erase' gives: > > st0(ncr0:330) MEDIUM ERROR asc:9,0 Track following error field > replaceable unit:2 > > Now, I have about 20 tapes for which this error occurs, and would like to > know if there's any way I can 'ressurect' them. I don't need to recover > any of the data that may be there, I just want to format them, or somehow > reinitialize them for use. You can't "format" DAT tapes. Chances are pretty good your drive is a DDS-2 drive; it will only recognize DDS-2 tapes. Be careful when buying new tapes. This does mean you cannot use DAT audio tapes. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr softweyr@xmission.com