On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 07:14:12PM +0200, Raffaele Sandrini wrote: > Now something on the filesystem was destroyed and i must restore it. I have > to navigate on the tape 2 marks back. I enter > mt -f /dev/nht0 fsfm 2 > and i get an imput/output error!
Tapes are notorious for needing lots of care when dealing with them. Often I am able to fix this problem by some combination of ejecting and re-inserting the tape, using a cleaning cartridge to clean the drive, or resetting the drive (either with a SCSI bus reset or by power cycling it, depending on the situation). noah -- _______________________________________________________ | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ | PGP Public Key: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html
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