From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 21 20:40:33 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp011.mail.yahoo.com (smtp011.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.173.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D6F1A37B417 for ; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 20:40:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wks-94-207-167.kscable.com (HELO yahoo.com) (jlboss@24.94.207.167 with plain) by smtp.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 22 Apr 2002 03:40:29 -0000 Message-ID: <3CC38631.60409@yahoo.com> Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 22:40:33 -0500 From: "Justin L. Boss" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020314 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Someone please help with backup problem Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 This is the third time I have asked this. I'm trying to backup to a Iomega 5G internal tape drive. It seams like it is working when I do a: mt -f /dev/ast0 status Mode Density Blocksize bpi Compression Current: 0x01:X3.22-1983 512 bytes 800 none ---------available modes--------- 0: default variable 0 none 1: default variable 0 none 2: default variable 0 none 3: default variable 0 none --------------------------------- File Number: 0 Record Number: 0 Residual Count 0 but when I do a: mt -f /dev/ast0 erase mt: /dev/ast0: erase: Input/output error and when I do a: tar -zpcf /dev/ast0 /home tar: Removing leading / from absolute path names in the archive. tar (child): can't write to /dev/ast0 : Input/output error my dmesg output for the tape looks like this: ast0: TAPE at ata1-slave using PIO4 I thank you for your help. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message