From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 26 18:18:51 2003 Return-Path: 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 A326F37B401 for ; Sat, 26 Apr 2003 18:18:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sccrmhc03.attbi.com (sccrmhc03.attbi.com [204.127.202.63]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD60E43F75 for ; Sat, 26 Apr 2003 18:18:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eross@chasma.net) Received: from eross (h00a024e9be3d.ne.client2.attbi.com[24.61.106.6]) by sccrmhc03.attbi.com (sccrmhc03) with SMTP id <20030427011847003006db8ke>; Sun, 27 Apr 2003 01:18:48 +0000 Message-ID: <001501c30c5a$a9cfe570$0100a8c0@eross> From: "Andrew Eross" To: Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2003 21:16:42 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Subject: Tapes X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2003 01:18:51 -0000 Hey all, I have a Seagate DDS-2 tape drive that I've been using without trouble = for quite some time now. I just bought some new sony tapes (same exact = tapes as I'm currently using .. but brand new) .. but for some reason I = can't get the tapes to work .. everytime I try to write to the tape I = get an input/output error from tar. The old tapes work, but not the new = ones .. is there some type of tape formatting process that I missed out = on or something? What could possibly be wrong? Thanks! Andrew