Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 17:14:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Adrian Carter <adrian@apic.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tape drives Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970422171404.24344t-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19970418133820.00aaf2a0@mail.apic.net>
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On Fri, 18 Apr 1997, Adrian Carter wrote: > Just got a Sony SDT-5200 DAT drive along with an Adaptec AHA-2910 SCSI > card (ahc0). BSD detects and recognises the drive, and an mt status returns > good data. However, using mt erase just sends the drive into permanent > 'busy' mode, never ending the task, and kill -1,-9,-ABRT all refuse to kill > the process, and issuing a reboot shuts down from multi-user, but never > reboots. I have to manually reset the machine. Why erase the tape? If you rewind it, then the next dump will overwrite all the information anyway. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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