From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 23 13:26:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from avocet.prod.itd.earthlink.net (avocet.prod.itd.earthlink.net [207.217.121.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E27137B4CF for ; Thu, 23 Nov 2000 13:26:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from gunnar.weygold.edu (pool0446.cvx14-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net [209.179.39.191]) by avocet.prod.itd.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with SMTP id NAA26029; Thu, 23 Nov 2000 13:26:10 -0800 (PST) From: Gunnar H Reichert-Weygold Organization: The Pagan Library To: "Michael Vince" , Subject: Re: IDE Tape drive, comes up but doesn't work Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 13:23:27 -0800 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain References: <016d01c05537$7422e4e0$2201a8c0@michaelvince.com> In-Reply-To: <016d01c05537$7422e4e0$2201a8c0@michaelvince.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00112313241300.00339@gunnar.weygold.edu> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Have you enabled ATAPI tape drive support in the kernel? On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, Michael Vince wrote: > I installed a IDE tape drive, it comes up in dmesg > ast0: TAPE at ata0-slave using PIO4 > But I cant backup anything onto it > doing "tar -cvf /dev/ast0 /etc" just makes it create a tar file in /dev and > not backup to tape > Doing "MAKEDEV all" doesn't create the device either > Can some one help? > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Beware of a tall dark man with a spoon up his nose. Above address is an autoresponder! Correct email address: gunnar at paganlibrary dot com Gunnar H Reichert-Weygold http://www.paganlibrary.com Spam Filter Your Mail! Go to http://www.Brightmail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message