Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 14:41:07 -0400 From: Jaime <jaime@snowmoon.com> To: "Michael L. Squires" <mikes@siralan.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Formatting a tape? Message-ID: <ae4324ed0903191141o5919cd83h17c6de78258b33d9@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20090319141433.F24611@familysquires.net> References: <ae4324ed0903190915u5a9ac68fw170f38354323e72e@mail.gmail.com> <20090319141433.F24611@familysquires.net>
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On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Michael L. Squires <mikes@siralan.org> wrote: > Have you looked at /var/log/messages? I've found error messages written > there when trying to write to a tape which showed that I needed to change > the block size. Good idea, but sadly there is nothing useful there. The following happened during my tinkering with mt, tar, and dd: Mar 19 14:06:32 atlas kernel: sa0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 6 lun 0 Mar 19 14:06:32 atlas kernel: sa0: <QUANTUM DLT-V4 0A00> Removable Sequential Access SCSI-2 device Mar 19 14:06:32 atlas kernel: sa0: 160.000MB/s transfers (80.000MHz, offset 96, 16bit) Mar 19 14:23:46 atlas kernel: (sa0:ahc0:0:6:0): Unexpected busfree in Data-out phase Mar 19 14:23:46 atlas kernel: SEQADDR == 0x86 Mar 19 14:23:46 atlas kernel: (sa0:ahc0:0:6:0): lost device Mar 19 14:23:46 atlas kernel: (sa0:ahc0:0:6:0): failed to write terminating filemark(s) Mar 19 14:23:47 atlas kernel: (sa0:ahc0:0:6:0): tape is now frozen- use an OFFLINE, REWIND or MTEOM command to clear this state. Mar 19 14:23:47 atlas kernel: (sa0:ahc0:0:6:0): removing device entry Mar 19 14:27:37 atlas kernel: sa0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 6 lun 0 Mar 19 14:27:37 atlas kernel: sa0: <QUANTUM DLT-V4 0A00> Removable Sequential Access SCSI-2 device Mar 19 14:27:37 atlas kernel: sa0: 160.000MB/s transfers (80.000MHz, offset 96, 16bit) Mar 19 14:29:19 atlas kernel: (sa0:ahc0:0:6:0): lost device Mar 19 14:29:19 atlas kernel: (sa0:ahc0:0:6:0): removing device entry Jaime
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