From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 22 10:46:24 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA03018 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 22 Aug 1996 10:46:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailhost.intac.com (root@nile.intac.com [198.6.114.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA03011 for ; Thu, 22 Aug 1996 10:46:20 -0700 (PDT) From: rjb@intac.com Received: from [198.6.114.70] (palpk-s20.intac.com [198.6.114.70]) by mailhost.intac.com (8.7.1/8.6.12) with SMTP id NAA03413 for ; Thu, 22 Aug 1996 13:45:58 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 22 Aug 1996 14:00:33 -0600 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: tar, st0 tape driver problem... Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I've been having an annoying little problem using tar and the st driver when doing backups. This problem only occurs after a system reboot. After reboot, if I issue any tar command, say tar -tv /dev/rst0, I get the following error: st0: bad request, must be between 0 and 0 If I issue the same tar command immediately after this error, tar works and completes without an error. It works without error from this point on, until next reboot. What is it that I must do to initialize st to keep this from happening? Bob