From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 21 22:32:59 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp014.mail.yahoo.com (smtp014.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.173.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4EE4537B42A for ; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 22:32:55 -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 05:21:46 -0000 Message-ID: <3CC39DEE.5080203@yahoo.com> Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 00:21:50 -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: Raul Zighelboim Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Someone please help with backup problem References: <3CC38631.60409@yahoo.com> <1019450301.63512.1.camel@shame.zighelboim.com> 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 ls -l /dev/ast0 crw-r----- 1 root operator 119, 0 Apr 20 20:30 /dev/ast0 should it be different, I'm doing this as root? Raul Zighelboim wrote: >Just guessing...... > > You can read, but not write to tape; > Have you checked permissions ? > > > >On Sun, 2002-04-21 at 22:40, Justin L. Boss wrote: > >>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 >> > > _________________________________________________________ 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