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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!fu-berlin.de!news.belwue.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!uniol!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: tandberg 4100 scsi tape failure (FreeBSD 2.1) Date: 25 Jun 1996 21:59:45 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 21 Message-ID: <4qpngh$juf@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4qm3cp$hni@minotaur.labyrinth.net.au> 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 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E jbh@labyrinth.net.au (John Hartley) wrote: > However when i go to access the tape drive (using the test suggested > in the news group archive): > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rst0 count=100 objs=512 > I get the following error message: > > st0(ahc:3:0): ILLEGAL REQUEST csi: 0,8,0 asc:24,0 Invalid field > in CDB fielod replacement unit 2 > st0: Cannot set selected modest0: oops no queued Does this also happen when you modify its idea about blocksize and density (that might perhaps be wrong)? Use ``mt blocksize 0'' as a starting point, and verify with ``mt status''. -- 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. ;-)