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On 5/16/2013 1:51 PM, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote:
> ...
>
> [1:25:325]root@run:/home/foo> dd if=/dev/sa0  of=tape5
>

hmm. try tcopy. Can we see any complaints from /var/log/messages?
(this would be better discussed on freebsd-scsi)