From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Nov 13 13:53:48 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id NAA02063 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 13 Nov 1995 13:53:48 -0800 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id NAA02054 for ; Mon, 13 Nov 1995 13:53:40 -0800 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id WAA03621; Mon, 13 Nov 1995 22:50:42 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id WAA20489; Mon, 13 Nov 1995 22:50:42 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id WAA27675; Mon, 13 Nov 1995 22:47:24 +0100 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199511132147.WAA27675@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: /dev/rst0 not configured.... To: mango@communique.net (Raul Zighelboim) Date: Mon, 13 Nov 1995 22:47:24 +0100 (MET) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, nectar@communique.net Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from "Raul Zighelboim" at Nov 13, 95 01:54:12 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 528 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Raul Zighelboim wrote: > > > I am trying to backup my system on /dev/rst0 (SCSI tape drive). > > If I try to access the drive I get a 'device not configured' error. > ----- # tar -cf /dev/rst0 / > ----- tar: can't open /dev/rst0 : Device not configured What controller and driver are you using? Can you forward us the boot messages from the SCSI controller? -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)