From owner-freebsd-scsi Sat Apr 17 14:51:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDE8614F2D for ; Sat, 17 Apr 1999 14:51:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from localhost (mjacob@localhost) by feral.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA13186; Sat, 17 Apr 1999 14:48:52 -0700 Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1999 14:48:52 -0700 (PWT) From: Matthew Jacob X-Sender: mjacob@feral-gw Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: martin.kraft@fal.de Cc: Stefan Huerter , freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: i/o error with larger QIC In-Reply-To: <199904172138.XAA21214@hpcs14.dv.fal.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Hello Matthew and Stefan, > > thanks for your assistance! > > Stefan Huerter wrote: > > > > Try: > > mt blocksize 0 > > This should work for you, too. I hope so :-) > > What's that?!?!?! > > I typed "mt blocksize 0", and -- the first time -- I could tar -t and > tar -x a file from my old DC 6525. Great! So far :-( > > I extracted a small file close to the beginning of the tape. It took > just a few seconds (as usual) and the file was on my disk. > > But after that, the tape didn't rewind and stop, as it did in former time, > it now is rewinding forwards and backwards since more than 30 minutes. This is what I'm worried about. If you're in *variable* mode, the drive is faking it. QIC is a fixed block format. If you set it to variable mode, I think it tries to guess the block layout, and it sounds like it's having a rough go of it. > > What a surprise > > Martin Kraft > > > P.S. 35 minutes. Just another turn. I will kill the tar process, because > I don't have a fire extinguisher at home ... Very strange ... > Do you remember what blocksize you *wrote* these tapes with? If you do, set the blocksize for the drive fixed at that size and try read with the tar command (setting to the blocksize you used to write the tape). I really wish I had manuals for this drive so I could try and figure what they're trying to do. -matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message