From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Sep 4 9:52:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from bantha.org (adsl-117.ntrnet.net [208.241.154.117]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40E3514DC3 for ; Sat, 4 Sep 1999 09:52:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from krinsky@bantha.org) Received: by bantha.org (Postfix, from userid 100) id D3C2766B89; Sat, 4 Sep 1999 12:51:46 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 4 Sep 1999 12:51:46 -0400 From: David Krinsky To: Warner Losh Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Seagate STT8000A (ATAPI/IDE) on FreeBSD? (fwd) Message-ID: <19990904125146.A353@bantha.org> References: <19990903233326.A346@bantha.org> <19990903020859.A33016@bantha.org> <199909030647.IAA88473@freebsd.dk> <19990903233326.A346@bantha.org> <199909040523.XAA63385@harmony.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <199909040523.XAA63385@harmony.village.org>; from Warner Losh on Fri, Sep 03, 1999 at 11:23:32PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Sep 03, 1999 at 11:23:32PM -0600, Warner Losh (imp@village.org) wrote: > In message <19990903233326.A346@bantha.org> David Krinsky writes: > : Any ideas? I'm quite happy to help debug this one, if you have any > : thoughts on where to go with it--I need to get backups working, and > : I'd much rather not have to buy a new tape drive or switch OSes... > > reboot. dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/tape count=1000 bs=24k. > > Then see if you still have the problem. I've seen errors like the > ones you reported, but this fixed it for me. Yep. Or rather, the dd itself triggers the error. > Also, make sure that your drive is good. I had one I had to return > because it was bad. Soren said the driver worked, and I could never > get it working for me. The replacement worked like a charm. Well, it's brand-new, and I didn't get it at a garage sale. :-) We know it's got a write head; I've succeeded at doing backups and restores of small directory hierarchies, so I kind of doubt it's the drive... Thanks for the suggestion, though. dd is the magic bullet in so many situations, it's always worth a shot. :-) Dave. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message