In message <19990903233326.a...@bantha.org> David Krinsky writes: : Any ideas? I'm quite happy to help debug this one, if you have any : thoughts on where to go with it--I need to get backups working, and : I'd much rather not have to buy a new tape drive or switch OSes...
reboot. dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/tape count=1000 bs=24k. Then see if you still have the problem. I've seen errors like the ones you reported, but this fixed it for me. Also, make sure that your drive is good. I had one I had to return because it was bad. Soren said the driver worked, and I could never get it working for me. The replacement worked like a charm. I also had one tape drive that I purchased at a garage sale for $0.50 that didn't have a tape head. That made writes to it fail as well... The other one I got at the garage sale for $0.50 has worked like a charm and it is, I think, a rebadged STT8000. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
