Re: Problem reading from tape drive -- SOLVED, or at least a workaround

2011-09-01 Thread Renee Gehlbach
Is there any way I could test to make sure this is in fact what's happening? Try writing several files to the tape, each in it's own operation, and issue a 'mt -bsf' between each operation. THEN try reading from the tape. with just successive 'read' operations. *NO* 'mt' positioning If e

Re: Problem reading from tape drive

2011-08-26 Thread Renee Gehlbach
On 08/25/2011 06:38 PM, Robert Bonomi wrote: From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Thu Aug 25 13:57:20 2011 Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 14:24:57 -0400 From: Renee Gehlbach To: questi...@freebsd.org Cc: Subject: Problem reading from tape drive I recently purchased a FreeBSD-compatible SAS card

Problem reading from tape drive

2011-08-25 Thread Renee Gehlbach
/nsa0 mbw01.log (insert rest of correct tar listing) backup# mt -f /dev/nsa0 fsf So, when I tell it to forward space file at the end of each tar file, it is able to read all four files correctly. This leaves me scratching my head, and wondering what the heck I've set up wrong. Any id

network problems after upgrade

2008-07-28 Thread Kendra Renee Gehlbach
Hello, I recently updated a FreeBSD system that has been running fine on 6.2 to 7.0. I rebuilt world & kernel, installed world & kernel, mergemastered, then rebooted. Now both network cards (em0, an Intel Pro/1000 v6.7.3, and rl0, an SMC eznet-10/100) are giving continual watchdog timeouts.