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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.erols.net!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!ix.netcom.com!news.webspan.net!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Newbie with Adaptec 1542C and Archive Python 4330 Problem Date: Mon, 07 Oct 1996 02:06:25 -0700 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 24 Message-ID: <3258C811.15FB7483@FreeBSD.org> References: <533j2q$1e8@nadine.teleport.com> <536gg1$ba@uriah.heep.sax.de> <538jol$8d@anorak.coverform.lan> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) To: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk Brian Somers wrote: > > In article <536gg1$ba@uriah.heep.sax.de>, > j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes: > > julie@foss.com (Julie Schneider) wrote: > > > >> I'm getting error messages such as the following when I use tar or > >> dump: > >> > >> st0(aha0:1:0): Hardware failure asc 44,0 internal failure > > > > That's a pretty explicit message. Your tape drive is dead. At least, > > it claims to be dead. (Btw., i think the correct message is > > ``Internal target failure''.) > > If it's of any interest, I got a similar message from a drive that had > run out of usable re-location blocks. I low-level-formatted the drive, > and it's now fine. How does one reformat a tape drive? ;-) -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project