From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 9 13:40:26 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 A615037B400 for ; Fri, 9 Aug 2002 13:40:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mx1.ovh.net (b1.ovh.net [213.186.33.51]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD1AB43E6A for ; Fri, 9 Aug 2002 13:40:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pcasidy@casidy.com) Received: (qmail 24721 invoked by uid 503); 9 Aug 2002 20:40:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO gueway.home) (212.43.212.24) by ns0.ovh.net with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP; 9 Aug 2002 20:40:24 -0000 Received: from littleoak.home (littleoak.home [192.168.1.3]) by gueway.home (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g79Kf8Z3036734 for ; Fri, 9 Aug 2002 22:41:13 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from pcasidy@littleoak.home) Message-Id: <200208092041.g79Kf8Z3036734@gueway.home> Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 22:35:38 +0200 (CEST) From: Philippe CASIDY Subject: [SOLVED] Re: tar: read error on /dev/sa0 : Input/output error To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <200207121447.g6CElmuF030364@gueway.home> 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 On 12 Jul, Philippe CASIDY wrote: > 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. > I have to for the blocksize to variable by issuing the following command: mt blocksize 0 Any explanations why I have to do this, are welcome! Phil. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message