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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: adaptec 2842, exabyte 4200c, and NO SENSE
Date: 8 Jul 1995 23:47:01 +0200
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Alan Laird <laird@mind.net> wrote:

>I recently diagnosed my buslogic 445c controller as being weird and 
>decided to return it for a new one just in case it was defective.  I 
>installed a 2842 that I had handy to hold me over until the 445c returned 
>from rma land.  However, when I go to do a dump, I get kernel messages 
>that dishearten me.
>
>dd if=/dev/nrst0 bs=63b
>
>produces
>
>st0(ahc0:3:0): NO SENSE info 2e00

Raw (aka. `character') devices are restricted to the hardware block
size.  I don't know what tape drive you are operating, but 63 bytes
block size doesn't seem to make any sense for me.
-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)