Re: SCSI tape driver

Dave Cinege (dcinege@psychosis.com)
Sat, 08 Aug 1998 09:53:18 -0400

Dave Cinege wrote:

> I've got weirdness too, except with .34+
>
> Zen-Machine# [~] mt -f /dev/nst0 seek 20
> mt: /dev/nst0: Input/output error
>
> Zen-Machine# [~] mt-st stoptions can-partitions
> Zen-Machine# [~] mt-st mkpart 10
> /dev/tape: I/O error

DOH! Two bad tapes and my own stupidity.

It seems you can not seek on a blank tape. I guess the 'blocks' aren't present
until written. : P

As for my two bad tapes they SOMEHOW got that way from me trying to get the seek
to work. I even tried bulk erasing the things and I still can not put any data
to them.

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