This is a new issue [was not present in -current a few months ago].
Attempting a dump to an HP C1533A DDS-2 drive, dump seems to "freeze the tape" at EOT.
Inserting the next volume of the dump and typing "yes" only produces write errors.
Performing an `mt rewind`, prior to typing "yes" clears the state, and allows the dump
to continue.
What's up with this? I can test changes to fix this if someone has a clue as to what
is changed here.
Not everyone can afford DLT for a single-tape backup, so this can be an issue
effecting many freebsd users.
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sa0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 5 lun 0
sa0: <HP C1533A 9503> Removable Sequential Access SCSI-2 device
sa0: 10.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 8)
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Jul 12 07:45:00 wahoo /boot/kernel/kernel: (sa0:ahc0:0:5:0): WRITE FILEMARKS. CDB: 10
0 0 0 2 0
Jul 12 07:45:00 wahoo /boot/kernel/kernel: (sa0:ahc0:0:5:0): CAM Status: SCSI Status
Error
Jul 12 07:45:00 wahoo /boot/kernel/kernel: (sa0:ahc0:0:5:0): SCSI Status: Check
Condition
Jul 12 07:45:00 wahoo /boot/kernel/kernel: (sa0:ahc0:0:5:0): NO SENSE asc:0,2
Jul 12 07:45:00 wahoo /boot/kernel/kernel: (sa0:ahc0:0:5:0): End-of-partition/medium
detected
Jul 12 07:45:00 wahoo /boot/kernel/kernel: (sa0:ahc0:0:5:0): Retries Exhausted
Jul 12 07:45:00 wahoo /boot/kernel/kernel: (sa0:ahc0:0:5:0): failed to write
terminating filemark(s)
Jul 12 07:45:00 wahoo /boot/kernel/kernel: (sa0:ahc0:0:5:0): tape is now frozen- use
an OFFLINE, REWIND or MTEOM command to clear
this state.
Jul 12 07:45:00 wahoo /boot/kernel/kernel: (sa0:ahc0:0:5:0): tape is now frozen- use
an OFFLINE, REWIND or MTEOM command to clear
this state.
jim
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