From owner-freebsd-scsi Tue Nov 27 1:54: 2 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from smtp016.mail.yahoo.com (smtp016.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.174.113]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E447B37C2BD for ; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 01:52:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from mkc-65-30-96-67.kc.rr.com (HELO yahoo.com) (65.30.96.67) by smtp.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 27 Nov 2001 09:52:19 -0000 Message-ID: <3C03624C.9090100@yahoo.com> Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 03:52:12 -0600 From: Jim Bryant Reply-To: kc5vdj@yahoo.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011019 Netscape6/6.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joerg Wunsch Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Time for my first backup, how do I install a DDS drive?? References: <000701c175cb$78d2b410$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <200111251946.fAPJk6Q39939@uriah.heep.sax.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Joerg Wunsch wrote: > "Anthony Atkielski" wrote: > > >>I didn't see any sign of a sa0 or nsa0 device in the kernel >>configuration file. What do I have to change or add? >> > > Look into /sys/i386/conf/GENERIC: > > # SCSI peripherals > device scbus # SCSI bus (required) > device da # Direct Access (disks) > device sa # Sequential Access (tape etc) > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > device cd # CD > device pass # Passthrough device (direct SCSI access) > > You may also want to dig over at hp.com for a firmware upgrade, if you can't find it there, I have a copy of the firmware upgrade program, and current firmware. The program just flashes the drive's firmware eeprom. Once you add the above lines and recompile the kernel, you should get a message to the effect of [note latest firmware date of 9608]: sa0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 5 lun 0 sa0: Removable Sequential Access SCSI-2 device sa0: 10.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 8) Mine seems to work well, as a matter of fact, bru is chugging along right now. jim -- ET has one helluva sense of humor! He's always anal-probing right-wing schizos! ----------------------------------------------------- POWER TO THE PEOPLE! ----------------------------------------------------- "Religious fundamentalism is the biggest threat to international security that exists today." United Nations Secretary General B.B.Ghali, 1995 _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message