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From: Radha Krishnan <radha@ccnet3.ccnet.com>
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Subject: Help with HP DAT 34580A Modes on FreeBSD-2.2
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Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 15:36:50 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: radha@ccnet3.ccnet.com (Radha Krishnan), freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org
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Hi,
	Could anyone with an HP35480A Dat on a FreeBSD-2.2 system, send me the 
output from "mt -f /dev/nrst0 status" listing the different modes and densities?

I've been unable to read any of the tar/pax of my earlier backups.

Thanks in advance. 

radha
---- Messages from /var/log/messages --

Here's some relevent info from my /var/log/messages :

May  3 19:01:14 krish /kernel: st0(ahb0:3:0): Sequential-Access density code 0x13, variable blocks, write-enabled
May  3 19:03:13 krish /kernel: st0(ahb0:3:0): BLANK CHECK req sz: 10240 (decimal) asc:14,3 End-of-data not found
May  3 19:05:31 krish /kernel: st0(ahb0:3:0): BLANK CHECK req sz: 10240 (decimal) asc:14,3 End-of-data not found
May  3 19:07:10 krish /kernel: st0(ahb0:3:0): BLANK CHECK req sz: 5120 (decimal) asc:14,3 End-of-data not found
May  3 19:08:43 krish /kernel: st0(ahb0:3:0): BLANK CHECK req sz: 10240 (decimal) asc:14,3 End-of-data not found
May  3 19:12:20 krish /kernel: st0(ahb0:3:0): BLANK CHECK req sz: 10240 (decimal) asc:14,3 End-of-data not found
May  3 19:30:42 krish /kernel: st0(ahb0:3:0): Sequential-Access density code 0x13,  drive empty
May  3 19:35:07 krish /kernel: st0(ahb0:3:0): MEDIUM ERROR asc:9,0 Track following error
May  3 19:49:38 krish /kernel: st0(ahb0:3:0): Deferred Error: MEDIUM ERROR asc:9,0 Track following error
May  4 03:24:23 krish /kernel: st0(ahb0:3:0): MEDIUM ERROR info:7e00 asc:9,0 Track following error
May  6 07:32:36 krish /kernel: st0(ahb0:3:0): stopen: dev=0xe01 (unit 0) result 0
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