From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 9 23:11:21 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA11502 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 9 Mar 1997 23:11:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id XAA11449; Sun, 9 Mar 1997 23:11:07 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id AAA04038; Mon, 10 Mar 1997 00:24:40 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA29409; Mon, 10 Mar 1997 00:07:18 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <19970310000718.MT14198@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 00:07:18 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: steve@vic.cioe.com (Steve Ames) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Conner tapestor problems? References: <199703071751.MAA20405@vic.cioe.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199703071751.MAA20405@vic.cioe.com>; from Steve Ames on Mar 7, 1997 12:51:41 -0500 Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Steve Ames wrote: > I have a conner tapestor (TSM4000R) SCSI tape backup. Thats one of them > QIC-3080 jobs. I'm using Sony QW3080XLF tapes (what the drive recommended). > > Problem seems to be that I'm only getting use about an eighth of the tape. > I run the backup of my system and get an I/O error (or a screenful of > MEDIUM errors). That means you've got -- well, medium errors. I'm not very familar with this wannabe-QIC technology. Maybe it's possible to reformat the cartridges? Try scsi -f /dev/st0.ctl -s 7200 -c "4 0 0 0 0 0" (Btw., which kind of medium errors do you get?) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)