On Fri, Sep 03, 1999 at 11:23:32PM -0600, Warner Losh (i...@village.org) wrote: > 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.
Yep. Or rather, the dd itself triggers the error. > 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. Well, it's brand-new, and I didn't get it at a garage sale. :-) We know it's got a write head; I've succeeded at doing backups and restores of small directory hierarchies, so I kind of doubt it's the drive... Thanks for the suggestion, though. dd is the magic bullet in so many situations, it's always worth a shot. :-) Dave. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
