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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
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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. ;-)