From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 21 7: 1:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from email.accessus.net (email.accessus.net [209.145.128.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9F6837B401 for ; Tue, 21 Aug 2001 07:01:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joe@jwebmedia.com) Received: from [209.145.133.59] (account jkoenig@accessus.net HELO jwebmedia.com) by email.accessus.net (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 3.4.8) with ESMTP id 14409486 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 21 Aug 2001 09:01:13 -0500 Message-ID: <3B826B4E.2AE4204C@jwebmedia.com> Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 09:08:13 -0500 From: Joseph Koenig Reply-To: joe@jwebmedia.com Organization: jWeb New Media Design X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 (Macintosh; U; PPC) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Unix Backup Options References: <3B817889.681AC1C5@jwebmedia.com> <3B817DAB.689A522C@iowna.com> <3B818768.C276E696@jwebmedia.com> <3B81882E.51970B49@iowna.com> <3B818C0C.E7661ADA@jwebmedia.com> <3B819A97.62AB2A47@iowna.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Alright, a phone call to Dell Tech Support led me to find out the BIOS was incorrectly configured. At reboot, FreeBSD showed me this: sa0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 6 lun 0 sa0: Removable Sequential Access SCSI-3 device sa0: 80.000MB/s transfers (40.000MHz, offset 32, 16bit) Once that was taken care of the drive was found at sa0 and all is well. Thanks for the help. Joe Bill Moran wrote: > > I don't see any SCSI adapter detected in your dmesg. What sort of > SCSI adapter is it? Are you sure it's supported? You may have to > recompile a custom kernel to detect it if it's not in the GENERIC > kernel. > > -Bill > > Joseph Koenig wrote: > > > > Ugh...I don't see the drive being recognized on startup...Below is my > > dmesg. Maybe I just don't know what I'm looking for. Any ideas? Thanks, > > > > Joe > > > > > Bill Moran wrote: > > > > > > Joseph Koenig wrote: > > > > > > > > Bill, thanks for the info. My system should be able to fit on the tape. > > > > Does dump compress the data automatically, or should my tape drive do > > > > that? > > > > > > dump doesn't do software compression, but it supports hardware compression > > > if your tape drive does it. use "mt" to check and turn on compression if > > > needed. > > > > > > > Are SCSI tape drives usually at /dev/st0? /dev/st0 isn't found on > > > > my system. > > > > > > No, SCSI tapes will be /dev/sa# (/dev/sa0) If you don't have it, try > > > using /dev/MAKEDEV to create the device. Check dmesg to see if it's > > > detected at bootup, if it is, it'll probably work fine. > > -- > "Where's the robot to pat you on the back?" > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message