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From: awhite@psci.sas.upenn.edu (Andrew White)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Amanda on FreeBSD
Date: 28 Feb 1995 20:42:28 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania
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Hello, net.world.

Is anyone aware of any problems with the SCSI tape driver on
FreeBSD-2.0?  I am trying to use Amanda (a free tape backup program
available from ftp://ftp.cs.umd.edu/pub/amanda) to backup my FreeBSD 2.0
box.  Amanda uses the "dump" command to do the backups.

I have configured amanda to use /dev/nrst0 as the tape device, which is
my HP JetStore 6000 DAT drive on my Bustek VLB SCSI controller. 
However, when Amanda runs the dump, I get these errors on my console
repeated several times:

Feb 28 15:33:38 global kernel: bt0: Try to abort
Feb 28 15:38:27 global kernel: sd0(bt0:0:0): soft error (corrected),\
 info = 532774 (decimal)

And, of course, the dump fails.  Does anyone know what these error
messages are telling me?

-andrew

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