From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 26 13:17:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta2-rme.xtra.co.nz (mta.xtra.co.nz [203.96.92.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 856DC152BA for ; Mon, 26 Apr 1999 13:17:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from junkmale@pop3.xtra.co.nz) Received: from wocker ([210.55.152.128]) by mta2-rme.xtra.co.nz (InterMail v04.00.02.07 201-227-108) with SMTP id <19990426201938.RADK6531620.mta2-rme@wocker>; Tue, 27 Apr 1999 08:19:38 +1200 From: "Dan Langille" Organization: The FreeBSD Diary To: Jim Chapman Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 08:17:40 +1200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: ATAPI Tape error Reply-To: junkmale@xtra.co.nz Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01d) Message-Id: <19990426201938.RADK6531620.mta2-rme@wocker> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jim, I've forwarded your question to questions as it's not for the newbies list. [replies should go to Jim, not me please ] Jim wrote: I am trying to do a backup on a Seagate ATAPI tape. The boot messages are wdc1: unit1 (atapi): , removable,accel,dma,iordis wst0: Drive empty, readonly, reverse,qfa,ecc,512b wst0: Max speed=600Kb/s, Transfer limit=52 blocks, Buffer size=728 blocks This seems OK. Now what? The command dump -0f /dev/rwst0 /var gives a controller not ready error and a media sense error but does write something on the tape. When I go into dos I have to re-initialize it. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Jim Chapman -- Dan Langille - DVL Software Limited The FreeBSD Diary - http://www.FreeBSDDiary.org/freebsd/ NZ FreeBSD User Group - http://www.nzfug.nz.freebsd.org/ The Racing System - http://www.racingsystem.com/racingsystem.htm To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message