From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 25 14:37: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rknebel.uplink.net (rknebel.uplink.net [209.173.88.243]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6ABC237B9D7 for ; Sun, 25 Jun 2000 14:36:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rknebel@uplink.net) Received: from [192.168.1.2] (mac.uplink.net [192.168.1.2]) by rknebel.uplink.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA00381 for ; Sun, 25 Jun 2000 17:36:34 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from rknebel@uplink.net) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: rknebel@rknebel.uplink.net Message-Id: Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 17:28:40 -0400 To: questions@freebsd.org From: Rick Knebel Subject: Atapi Tape Drive Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I am trying to use an !0 Gig Seagate Tape Drive with Freebsd 4.0. It seems bru will not function correctly. The devices are /dev/rast0 and /dev/nrast0. If I try to issue the command mt -f /dev/nrast0 retension it works fine. With the rewind command nothing happens and with the erase command I get an I&O error. I am hoping that someone can enlighten me about this so i do not have to go back to linux to use my tape drive for backups. I also noticed that the file permissions for these two devices are different than those of the scsi tape devices. There is no group write permissions. I can change these but on the next reboot they are back to where they are, almost like the kernel is resetting them. When I try the erase command I get a message from ast0 about Data Protect. Hope this makes sense to someone who can help me. This is getting very frustrating. Thanks Rick -- Rick Knebel rknebel@uplink.net http://rknebel.uplink.net/~rknebel To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message