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Started by David A. Rebnord
Mon, 16 Nov 1992 15:36
Problem with DAT drive
Author: David A. Rebnord
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 15:36
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 15:36
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I'm having a problem writing to DAT tapes with my WangDAT 1300 connected to NeXTstation running NeXTSTEP 3.0 The problem began as I was making a backup and the script I was using (Tarchive 0.71 from the sonata archives) complained of an unrecoverable medium error. Since then I can read, and move around (rewind, bsf, fsf etc.) old tapes using the drive, but I no longer seem to be able to write even an eof to any tape (I've tried 4 diiferent ones with no luck), much less a tar archive. I've rebooted many times, including a cold start of the DAT drive. I've also run the head cleaning tape through the drive but with no visible effect. Here's what I get in the terminal window 1 betenoir> mt -f /dev/nrst0 rewind 2 betenoir> mt -f /dev/nrst0 weof /dev/nrst0 weof 1 failed: I/O error 3 betenoir> mt -f /dev/nrst0 status Generic SCSI tape drive, residual=1 Sense Key = 0x03 Sense Code = 0x00 Sense Byte 0x13 = 0x00 Sense Byte 0x14 = 0x00 Sense Byte 0x15 = 0x00 Sense Byte 0x16 = 0x00 and more significantly here's what appears on the console st: cmd = 0x10 sr_io_status = 2H I can't seem to find any documentation on what this is telling me or more importantly how to fix it. I would appreciate any help from any kind soul who understands DAT drives or the mt driver. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Dave Rebnord | drebnord@betenoir.syr.edu (NeXTmail) Dept. of Mathematics | (315) 443-1585 (voice) Syracuse University | (315) 443-1475 (fax) Syracuse NY 13244-1150 |
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