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In message <20010914114319.98DA81A6C@druid.net>you write:
> Thus spake Matthias Scheler
> > In article <20010913112940.BDD7C1A6E@druid.net>,
> > 	darcy@druid.net (D'Arcy J.M. Cain) writes:
> > > I have a system that I backup to using tar every day.  Every few da=
ys I
> > > start seeing the following message.
> > > =

> > > tar: can't write to /dev/tape : Input/output error
> > > If I reboot the system it is OK again for another few days.
> > =

> > You reset the streamer with this. A "scsictl scsibus0 reset" would pr=
obably
> > be sufficient.
> =

> I will try that next time.  Thanks for the suggestions.

=46rom my observations, this will not work.  It looks like the driver sto=
res the =

state of the tape and there is no way to inform the driver that the tape =
has =

changed.  The symptom is that there is no further activity reported by th=
e =

tape LED's once the I/O error occurs due to Media Errors (not the case fo=
r =

EOT/EOM).

Gr=FC=DFe
        Oskar



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