From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 31 10:28:23 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id KAA14186 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 31 Aug 1995 10:28:23 -0700 Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [192.216.222.226]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id KAA14178 for ; Thu, 31 Aug 1995 10:28:20 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id KAA10978 for ; Thu, 31 Aug 1995 10:16:34 -0700 Prev-Resent: Thu, 31 Aug 1995 10:16:33 -0700 Prev-Resent: "hackers@freebsd.org " Replied: Thu, 31 Aug 1995 10:16:27 -0700 Replied: "fnf@amigalib.com (Fred Fish) " Received: from amigalib.com (fishpond.amigalib.com [165.247.33.2]) by time.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id JAA10507 for ; Thu, 31 Aug 1995 09:15:49 -0700 Received: by amigalib.com (Smail3.1.28.1 #64) id m0soCQm-0004nYC; Thu, 31 Aug 95 09:25 MST Message-Id: From: fnf@amigalib.com (Fred Fish) Subject: Re: DAT drive support To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Thu, 31 Aug 1995 09:25:32 -0700 (MST) Cc: fnf@amigalib.com (Fred Fish) In-Reply-To: <9681.809874083@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Aug 31, 95 06:01:23 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 808 Resent-To: hackers@freebsd.org Resent-Date: Thu, 31 Aug 1995 10:16:34 -0700 Resent-Message-ID: <10976.809889394@time.cdrom.com> Resent-From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > That's a bit sparse, I'm afraid. Try this: > > [also, rst0 is the correct device - rwt0 is for non-SCSI tapes] > mt -f /dev/rst0 blocksize 0 > > Now try reading from the tape. Ok, I tried this and I get: st0(aha0:6:0): BLANK CHECK req sz: 16384 (decimal) asc:30,1 Cannot read medium - unknown format I try writing to the tape and I get: st0(aha0:6:0): MEDIUM ERROR info:7d000 asc:c,0 Write error sks:80,1 I try "mt -f /dev/rst0 status" and I get: Present Mode: Density = X3B5/88-185A Blocksize variable ---------available modes--------- Mode 0: Density = 0x00 Blocksize variable Mode 1: Density = 0x00 Blocksize variable Mode 2: Density = 0x00 Blocksize variable Mode 3: Density = 0x00 Blocksize variable -Fred