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From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva)
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Subject: Re: Archive Anaconda on 1540B -- waiting forever for tape to become ready
To: jmb@freefall.freebsd.org (Jonathan M. Bresler)
Date: Sun, 21 Apr 1996 01:00:00 -0500 (CDT)
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In-Reply-To: <199604210316.UAA19111@freefall.freebsd.org> from "Jonathan M. Bresler" at Apr 20, 96 08:16:19 pm
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> 	is this a brand new blank tape?  never before used?
> 	if so you have to "force" the tape.  try "mt -f /dev/rst0 fsf 1"
> 	for me that results in
> 		"st0(ncr1:4:0): HARDWARE FAILURE info:1 asc:80,8a"
> 	but afterward mt operations work!

That got it to do something, and the status worked, so I decided to
try tarring some stuff to it. Now I get:

Apr 21 00:50:32 bonkers /kernel: st0(aha0:5:0): HARDWARE FAILURE info:1 asc:80,8a 
Apr 21 00:53:34 bonkers /kernel: st0(aha0:5:0): timed out