Formatting a tape?

[Julien Cigar]

Try this :

mt -f /dev/nsa0 rewind
mt -f /dev/nsa0 weof 1
mt -f /dev/nsa0 rewind


On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 12:15 -0400, Jaime wrote:
> I have a DLT tape drive in a FreeBSD system.  With one of the tapes, I
> can get "tar -cvpf /dev/sa0 -C / ." to work.  With all the other
> tapes, I can't.
> 
> Is there some kind of formatting process that I need to do?  I tried
> "mt fsf 1" from this page:
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/backups-tapebackups.html
> 
> This didn't seem to work, though.
> 
> Any help is appreciated,
> Jaime
> 
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