From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 28 10:53:40 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDEBA37B401 for ; Wed, 28 May 2003 10:53:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1434043FAF for ; Wed, 28 May 2003 10:53:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) id h4SHrd0T091377; Wed, 28 May 2003 12:53:39 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 12:53:39 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Doug Poland Message-ID: <20030528175339.GA76957@dan.emsphone.com> References: <40296.63.104.35.130.1054144011.squirrel@email.polands.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <40296.63.104.35.130.1054144011.squirrel@email.polands.org> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.1-BETA X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SCSI tape: device not configured problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 17:53:41 -0000 In the last episode (May 28), Doug Poland said: > I've been using an HP HP35480A 1109 DAT tape in a -STABLE box for > about a year and half with no problems. Just the other day, I > started seeing > > mt: /dev/nsa0: Device not configured > > errors whenever I try to control the device. > > Should I just MAKEDEV nsa0 to fix it? Is it perhaps a hardware > issue? Thanks for your assitance. This could mean you don't have a tape in the drive. There are a limited number of error codes the kernel can return, and ENXIO is a catch-all for "I know what you want but it's not there": 6 ENXIO Device not configured. Input or output on a special file referred to a device that did not exist, or made a request beyond the limits of the device. This error may also occur when, for example, a tape drive is not online or no disk pack is loaded on a drive. You can use rsa0.ctl to send commands to the tape drive when there is no tape inserted (to set compression or density for the next tape, for example, or to read the error status) -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com