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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!col.hp.com!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Problems with Exabyte-2501 Date: 31 Dec 1995 14:30:31 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 19 Message-ID: <4c66q7$s31@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4bv5si$27v@ultra.sonic.net> <4c5eil$q50@news.n2.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 dsmith@n2.net (Dave Smith) writes: > When using tar to backup large amounts of data (>1Gb) I often get > media errors. Many times everything will work OK, but every now and > then I have problems. Media errors are errors that are common with > tape drives and most drivers will back up and re-write the data several > times. Old 9-tracks tape drivers would eventually backup and erase > over tape media flaws and then re-write the data block. FreeBSD's SCSI tape driver relies on the drive to correct the errors, or report the failure. Perhaps you could tweak some mode page for your tape drive to convince it doing this? -- 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. ;-)