From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 3 12:27:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20E061576A for ; Mon, 3 May 1999 12:27:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA26445; Mon, 3 May 1999 12:27:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 3 May 1999 12:27:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Jim Chapman Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATAPI Tape & Dump In-Reply-To: <372AC99A.C17@sympatico.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 1 May 1999, Jim Chapman wrote: > I have been struggling trying to get an ATAPI tape drive to work. I have > found that the command > tar -cf /dev/rwst0 writes to the tape and the command > tar -xf /dev/rwst0 reads the file back and cmp says they are > equal. > > The problem seems to be with dump. The command > dump -0af /dev/rwst0 / writes to the tape, closes the drive, rewinds the > tape and then tries to send a command to the drive. The man page for wst > says that closing the drive will rewind the tape and unmount the drive. .. and it did. > Is this a problem with dump or is there something I need to do? I don't see any problem. Be more specific. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message