From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 16 6:39:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.inka.de (quechua.inka.de [212.227.14.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D2BA37B66D for ; Mon, 16 Oct 2000 06:39:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kemoauc.mips.inka.de (uucp@) by mail.inka.de with local-bsmtp id 13lAU7-00089D-00; Mon, 16 Oct 2000 15:39:23 +0200 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by kemoauc.mips.inka.de (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e9GDH2P24960 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 16 Oct 2000 15:17:02 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from daemon) From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) Subject: Re: Slightly off topic: Wangtek 5150ES Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 13:17:02 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <8sev4e$obn$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> References: Originator: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Micke Josefsson wrote: > sa0 at ncr0 bus 0 target 2 lun 0 > sa0: Removable Sequential Access SCSI-CCS device > sa0: 3.300MB/s transfers > lagrange# tar cf /dev/rsa0 vinum.4.ps > tar: can't write to /dev/rsa0 : Invalid argument. > Where do I go wrong? I have a 525Meg tape in the drive. Is it > possible that the tape is not recognized? Good you mentioned this, because that's a failure mode I'd have never thought of. Yes, of course you need a QIC-150 tape. Tape type recognition is automatic for QIC drives, although I don't know the exact mechanism. A higher capacity tape than the drive was build for is simply an unknown tape type that the drive will refuse to read or write. > Do I have to use another (150Meg?) tape? The documentation that came with the drive mentions the supported tape types. These should be DC6150 (QIC-150, 150MB) and DC6250 (QIC-150, longer tape, 250MB) plus a few older types (QIC-120, QIC-24) that are still supported for compatibility reasons. Second-hand DC6[12]50 tapes are ubiquitous, and the tapes are very longlived, so you should have little trouble finding some. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message