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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: QIC-02 tape drive problemette
Date: 12 Nov 1995 16:23:47 +0100
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Ian Pallfreeman <ip@mcc.ac.uk> wrote:
>Although I've already done a successful dump on this drive, I'm getting:
>
>* bash# mt -f /dev/rwt0d status
>* Wangtek tape drive, residual=0
>* Nov 10 15:35:14 albatross /kernel: pid 8178: mt: uid 0: exited on signal 11
>* Segmentation fault (core dumped)

Known problem.  I think the core dump problem has been fixed recently,
but nevertheless mt(1) doesn't report any useful status about wt-style
drives (since it doesn't know about them).

I promise to fix this some day.  It would reduce the time i need for
fixing if somebody would drop a wt-style tape drive on me. :-)
-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)