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From: william@datapark.com (William Boucher)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Tape Backup help
Date: Tue, 08 Oct 1996 03:57:30 GMT
Organization: Cyberstore Systems Inc.
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I am having a bit of trouble getting my tape backup to work and I was
hoping someone out there might be able to help me..

I have a p120 running freeBSD 
a conner tape drive
an adaptec scsi card

When I boot the messages....

aic0 at 0x340-0x35f irq 11 on isa
aic0 waiting for scsi devices to settle
(aic0:0:4:0): "ARCHIVE Python 28388-XXX 5.72" type 1 removable SCSI 2
st0(aic0:4:0): Sequential-Access density code 0x24, 512-byte blocks,
write enabled

all look right to me but then when I do ...

dump 0uf /dev/erst0 /home

I get....

DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Sun Oct (blah blah)
DUMP: Date of last (blah blah)
DUMP: Dumping /home to /dev/erst0
DUMP: bad sblock magic number
DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted.

I get the same message when I try nrst0 or rst0

If I do scsi -f /dev/erst0 -p

I get 0-7 SCIOCADDR: Inappropriate ioctl for device

and then the tape ejects...

If i do the above for nrst0 or rst0 I just get the inappropriate
message and nothing happens.

I'm really confused.

Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks


Wil Boucher.