From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 18 15:33:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from home.offwhite.net (home.offwhite.net [156.46.35.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B59B037B424 for ; Mon, 18 Sep 2000 15:33:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (brennan@localhost) by home.offwhite.net (8.9.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA76616; Mon, 18 Sep 2000 17:33:26 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 17:33:26 -0500 (CDT) From: BWS - Offwhite To: Gary Kline Cc: Damon Hammis , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tape Problems In-Reply-To: <20000804105932.A28203@athena.sea.tera.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG What this problem every resolved? It looks like you simply need to run this command before doing your restore. mt rewind I am guessing your tape is not full rewound. (is that a word?) That may be too simple a solution, but simple solutions are often the ones which work for me. Brennan Stehling - web developer and sys admin projects: www.greasydaemon.com | www.onmilwaukee.com | www.sncalumni.com On Fri, 4 Aug 2000, Gary Kline wrote: > On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 01:27:31PM -0400, Damon Hammis wrote: > > (my crap snipped) > > > > > This (or something very similar) happened to me in recent > > > months... I believe your tape is bad. I remember seeing > > > the ``READ(06)'' error and it finally turned out to be > > > bad media. I hope that I'm wrong here and that somebody > > > else had another clue or two. > > > > I suspected this, so I tried another tape which I had an older backup on > > and got the same error. > > > > *Ugh* Bad tape drive? Bad connections? bad driver? > (Late last year I lost 10 months of files, &c, &c, &c, so > I can sympathize.) > > gary > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message