Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 15:59:59 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: Murray <mgd@brutus.converging.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how to mount a tape drive? Message-ID: <20010202155959.B20020@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20010202141814.C357@converging.net>; from "Murray" on Fri Feb 2 14:18:14 GMT 2001 References: <20010202130432.A357@converging.net> <20010202141241.A20020@dan.emsphone.com> <20010202141814.C357@converging.net>
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In the last episode (Feb 02), Murray said: > I tried the tcopy /dev/rsa0 and received the following errors: > > file 0: block size 65536: records 0 to 131 > file 0: block size 57334: tcopy, read error, file 0, record 132, > Input/output error > > I tried a different tape and tar -cf /dev/rsa0 /var. This seemed to > work but when I tcopied, I received the same error as above. Am I to > assume that my T20 has shuffled off his mortal coil? It might just need a cleaning; also check your console output. Any time you get an I/O error, you should get a more verbose error logged to the console/dmesg. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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