From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 2 13: 9:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from beloit.edu (beloit.edu [144.89.40.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1835314F3C for ; Thu, 2 Dec 1999 13:09:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from noodene@beloit.edu) Received: from deepthought ([144.89.40.89]) by beloit.edu (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id PAA24342; Thu, 2 Dec 1999 15:02:59 -0600 Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.19991202151404.009dce10@beloit.edu> X-Sender: noodene@beloit.edu X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.58 Date: Thu, 02 Dec 1999 15:17:47 -0600 To: mhughes@logroad.bridge.com (Michael Hughes) From: "Eric S. Nooden" Subject: Re: Mounting a SCSI tape drive Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199912022029.OAA07658@logroad.bridge.com> References: <4.2.0.58.19991202135514.009ea320@beloit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mike, Thanks for replying. I unfortunately must show my ignorance and ask "What is an MX Card?" Are you referring to the SCCI controller or a card physically attached to the tape drive. Thanks, Eric At 02:29 PM 12/2/99 -0600, Michael Hughes wrote: >Eric, > Type changing dup switch 4 to on, on the MX Card. > >Eric S. Nooden said in email to me: > > > > I am running into some problems trying to mount a tape drive. When I run: > > > > mt -f /dev/nrsa0 rewind (or any command i.e. status) > > > > I get the following error message: > > > > (sa0:ahc0:0:4:0): MODE SENSE(06). CDB: 1a 0 0 0 c 0 > > (sa0:ahc0:0:4:0): ILLEGAL REQUEST > > > > ***I did notice that when the command ran, the light on the tape drive did > > flash. > > > > The file /var/log/messages reports the following about sa0: > > > > sa0: at ahc0 bus 0 target 4 lun 0 > > sa0: Removable Sequential Access SCSI-CCS device > > sa0: 3.300MB/s transfers > > > > Any help in mounting this beast and get backups done would be appreciated. > > > > Thank you in advance, > > > > Eric Nooden > > noodene@beloit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message