Problems with a 4mm tapedrive

From: Kjell Andresen <kjell.andresen_at_usit.uio.no>
Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 12:39:37 +0200 (MET DST)

I have trouble reading old tapes from my 4mm WangDAT3200 (2 Gb) tapedrive,
while I succeed in overwriting/reading with the same drive.

Her is the picture:

dyret /# /local/gnu/bin/tar tf /dev/rmt0h
/local/gnu/bin/tar: Read error on /dev/rmt0h: No space left on device
/local/gnu/bin/tar: At beginning of tape, quitting now

<clean with cleaningtape>
<turning drive off>
<washing with tecnical spritus>
<another used tape is put into drive>

dyret /# /local/gnu/bin/tar tf /dev/rmt0h
/local/gnu/bin/tar: Read error on /dev/rmt0h: No space left on device
/local/gnu/bin/tar: At beginning of tape, quitting now

dyret /# /local/gnu/bin/tar cvf /dev/rmt0h /tmp
/local/gnu/bin/tar: Removing leading / from absolute path names in the
archiv
tmp/
tmp/.X11-unix/
tmp/.X11-unix/X0
tmp/avssock7015
..
dyret /# /local/gnu/bin/tar tf /dev/rmt0h
tmp/
tmp/.X11-unix/
tmp/.X11-unix/X0
tmp/avssock7015

<the tape i want to read is put back into drive>
dyret /# /local/gnu/bin/tar tf /dev/rmt0h
/local/gnu/bin/tar: Read error on /dev/rmt0h: No space left on device
/local/gnu/bin/tar: At beginning of tape, quitting now

??

Kjell

info from uerf:
      tz5 at scsi0 target 5 lun 0 (LID=5)_(WangDAT Model 3200 02.2)

dyret /# mt -f /dev/rmt0h status

DEVIOGET ELEMENT CONTENTS
---------------- --------
category DEV_TAPE
bus DEV_SCSI
interface SCSI
device Model 32
adpt_num 0
nexus_num 0
bus_num 0
ctlr_num 0
slave_num 5
dev_name tz
unit_num 5
soft_count 0
hard_count 3
stat 9
                        DEV_BOM DEV_WRTLCK
category_stat 20000
                        DEV_61000_BPI

DEVGETINFO ELEMENT CONTENTS
------------------ --------
media_status 0x9
                        BOM WrtProt
unit_status 0x121
                        Ready 2_FM_Close Rewind Buffered
record_size 0
density (current) 61000 BPI
density (on write) 0 BPI
Filemark Cnt <Not Valid>
Record Cnt <Not Valid>
Class 2 - RDAT

MTIOCGET ELEMENT CONTENTS
---------------- --------
mt_type MT_ISSCSI
mt_dsreg 0
mt_erreg 0
mt_resid 1
Received on Wed May 21 1997 - 13:03:58 NZST

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