berlin%bu-albert.BU.EDU@bu-it.bu.edu (David Fickes) (01/19/89)
I've had a strange failure with the tape drive on our Sun 3/160 running
Sun/OS 3.5. Essentially, SOME cartridge tapes will create the following
error...
st0: failed cmd = 8 1 0 0 14 0
st0 error: sense key(0x8): blank check, error code(0x34): end-of-media
sense = f0 0 8 0 0 0 14 3 34 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
This was using the command tar -tf /dev/rst0 .. I've also seen it using
tar -tf /dev/nrst0 but the tape drive works when using rst8!!!
This is usually a problem with "certain" tapes that have been made off
site.... This has been periodic and is holding up making another set of
the SEX tapes...
any ideas?
- david
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