Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 13:27:21 -0700 From: Michelle Weeks <michelle@newtonsecond.com> To: John Bleichert <syborg@stny.rr.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: backup problems Message-ID: <46C4A654-8EC3-11D6-8646-00039368B8EC@newtonsecond.com>
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> On Wednesday, July 3, 2002, at 11:57 AM, John Bleichert wrote: > >> On Wed, 3 Jul 2002, Michelle Weeks wrote: >> <snippage> >>>> Also mt rewind to test commands. If you post your dmesg with lines >>>> detecting the tape drive, that would help. >>> >>> mt -f /dev/nrsa0 rewind seemed to work. i did not get any error >>> messages back. i'm sorry, i'm a newbie and don't know what you mean >>> when you say post your dmesg with lines detecting the tape drive. did >>> you mean to show the output that i posted above from the mt status >>> command? >>> >>> thank you!! >>> >>> michelle >>> >> >> >> The 'dmesg' command produces a bunch of information on what devices and >> modules have been configured by the kernel (see the dmesg man page). I >> don't know anything about tape drives, but assuming that /dev/nrs* >> thingy >> above is one, this would be a way to check dmesg for it: >> >> $ dmesg | grep nrs > > thank you for the explanation. > > here is the last part of the output from dmesg: > > Mounting root from ufs:/dev/da0s1a > pid 263 (m4), uid 0 on /: file system full > pid 263 (m4), uid 0 on /: file system full > pid 263 (m4), uid 0 on /: file system full > pid 279 (makemap), uid 0 on /: file system full > pid 279 (makemap), uid 0 on /: file system full > pid 279 (makemap), uid 0 on /: file system full > (sa0:ahc0:0:12:0): ERASE. CDB: 19 0 0 0 0 0 > (sa0:ahc0:0:12:0): DATA PROTECT asc:27,0 > (sa0:ahc0:0:12:0): Write protected > (sa0:ahc0:0:12:0): ERASE. CDB: 19 0 0 0 0 0 > (sa0:ahc0:0:12:0): DATA PROTECT asc:27,0 > (sa0:ahc0:0:12:0): Write protected > (sa0:ahc0:0:12:0): tape is now frozen- use an OFFLINE, REWIND or MTEOM > command to clear this state. > (sa0:ahc0:0:12:0): tape is now frozen- use an OFFLINE, REWIND or MTEOM > command to clear this state. > (sa0:ahc0:0:12:0): tape is now frozen- use an OFFLINE, REWIND or MTEOM > command to clear this state. > (sa0:ahc0:0:12:0): tape is now frozen- use an OFFLINE, REWIND or MTEOM > command to clear this state. > (sa0:ahc0:0:12:0): tape is now frozen- use an OFFLINE, REWIND or MTEOM > command to clear this state. > (sa0:ahc0:0:12:0): tape is now frozen- use an OFFLINE, REWIND or MTEOM > command to clear this state. > (sa0:ahc0:0:12:0): tape is now frozen- use an OFFLINE, REWIND or MTEOM > command to clear this state. > > this was from a previous tape i was using and i did take this tape > offline and put in a new tape. when i tried to tar to the new tape it > told me "operation not permitted", but I don't see any message in dmesg > about the last few commands I have tried to run which are tar and mt > rewind. when I do enter mt rewind and it doesnt' give back an error > message. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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