From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 20 08:29:25 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA17895 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 08:29:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from caladan.tdx.co.uk (caladan.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA17885 for ; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 08:29:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kpielorz@tdx.co.uk) Received: from tdx.co.uk (lorca-tx.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.242]) by caladan.tdx.co.uk (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id QAA73340; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 16:29:09 GMT Message-ID: <36A60454.74B5C222@tdx.co.uk> Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 16:29:08 +0000 From: Karl Pielorz Organization: TDX - The Digital eXchange X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jason Horn CC: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Scsi tape problem References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jason Horn wrote: > > I have a Hp Surestore Dat8 on a freebsd 2.2.7 system. The system > recognized the tape at bootup... > > ahc0 waiting for scsi devices to settle > (ahc0:5:0): "HP C1533A A708" type 1 removable SCSI 2 > st0(ahc0:5:0): Sequential-Access density code 0x24, variable blocks, write-enabled > > Problem is there is no /dev/st0, therefore I can't access the drive. I've > tried doing a MAKEDEV st0 and get the following response... > > This does not create an st0. I'm new to this, so any help would be > appreciated. Try using 'rst0' as the device... I normally use 'nrst0' which means 'Non-Rewinding raw SCSI tape 0' (zero). Most the utilities either default to '/dev/nrst0' or can have their default changed with either the TAPE environment variable, or command line options... e.g. on my system I can get away with just "mt status" to find the status of my tapedrive... (for Tar, I use 'tar cvf /dev/nrst0' out of force of habbit... :) -Kp To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message