From owner-freebsd-scsi Fri Mar 7 19:53:13 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA15912 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Fri, 7 Mar 1997 19:53:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA15889; Fri, 7 Mar 1997 19:53:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by who.cdrom.com (8.8.5/8.6.11) with ESMTP id OAA01277 ; Fri, 7 Mar 1997 14:52:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id OAA00893; Fri, 7 Mar 1997 14:51:40 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 7 Mar 1997 14:51:40 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Steve Ames cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Conner tapestor problems? In-Reply-To: <199703071751.MAA20405@vic.cioe.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 7 Mar 1997, Steve Ames wrote: > I have a conner tapestor (TSM4000R) SCSI tape backup. Thats one of them > QIC-3080 jobs. I'm using Sony QW3080XLF tapes (what the drive recommended). We have one of these. It works great! > Problem seems to be that I'm only getting use about an eighth of the tape. > I run the backup of my system and get an I/O error (or a screenful of > MEDIUM errors). > > i use 'mt rewind' and the tape is definately rewound. I try to go to the > end of the tape and look at it physically and its only gone about an eighth > of the way (consistent with how far along in the dump process it gets before > barfing...) > > Anyone got a clue for me? Seems i'm sorely in need of one.. New tape? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major