Date: Sun, 21 Apr 1996 01:00:00 -0500 (CDT) From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva) To: jmb@freefall.freebsd.org (Jonathan M. Bresler) Cc: peter@taronga.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Archive Anaconda on 1540B -- waiting forever for tape to become ready Message-ID: <199604210600.BAA05138@bonkers.taronga.com> In-Reply-To: <199604210316.UAA19111@freefall.freebsd.org> from "Jonathan M. Bresler" at Apr 20, 96 08:16:19 pm
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> is this a brand new blank tape? never before used? > if so you have to "force" the tape. try "mt -f /dev/rst0 fsf 1" > for me that results in > "st0(ncr1:4:0): HARDWARE FAILURE info:1 asc:80,8a" > but afterward mt operations work! That got it to do something, and the status worked, so I decided to try tarring some stuff to it. Now I get: Apr 21 00:50:32 bonkers /kernel: st0(aha0:5:0): HARDWARE FAILURE info:1 asc:80,8a Apr 21 00:53:34 bonkers /kernel: st0(aha0:5:0): timed out
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