From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 21 20:46:43 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail4.nc.rr.com (fe4.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7428037B41C for ; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 20:46:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from i8k.babbleon.org ([66.57.86.84]) by mail4.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.687.68); Sun, 21 Apr 2002 23:46:32 -0400 Received: by i8k.babbleon.org (Postfix, from userid 111) id 35B1ABB29; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 23:46:20 -0400 (EDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Brian T.Schellenberger To: "Justin L. Boss" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Someone please help with backup problem Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 23:46:20 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] References: <3CC38631.60409@yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <3CC38631.60409@yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20020422034620.35B1ABB29@i8k.babbleon.org> 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 Sunday 21 April 2002 11:40 pm, Justin L. Boss wrote: | This is the third time I have asked this. First, if I follow you, this is a tape problem, not a backup problem; a more accurate sugject line might help. Second, the hardware list might help more with device problems. Third, if you've won "stump the band" after asking questions a couple of times, and none of the speciality groups seem obvious then it should be cool to post to -hackers. Anyway . . . have you dont any i/o to the tape successfully, read or write? Have you tried other media? Can you use it under any other O/S? | | 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 -- Brian T. Schellenberger . . . . . . . bts@wnt.sas.com (work) Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal) http://www.babbleon.org http://www.eff.org http://www.programming-freedom.org If you smell the smoke you don't need to be told what you've got to do; Yet there's a certain breed, so very in-between, they'd rather take a vote. -- DEVO -- Here To Go To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message