From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 17 7:28:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pan.ch.intel.com (pan.ch.intel.com [143.182.246.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C243337B402 for ; Wed, 17 Jan 2001 07:28:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from sedona.intel.com (sedona.ch.intel.com [143.182.218.21]) by pan.ch.intel.com (8.9.1a+p1/8.9.1/d: relay.m4,v 1.33 2000/11/21 19:27:27 smothers Exp $) with ESMTP id IAA07733; Wed, 17 Jan 2001 08:27:39 -0700 (MST) Received: from hip186.ch.intel.com (hip186.ch.intel.com [143.182.225.68]) by sedona.intel.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1/d: sendmail.cf,v 1.14 2001/01/02 18:39:59 steved Exp $) with ESMTP id IAA14315; Wed, 17 Jan 2001 08:27:39 -0700 (MST) X-Envelope-From: jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com Received: (from jreynold@localhost) by hip186.ch.intel.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1/d: client.m4,v 1.3 1998/09/29 16:36:11 sedayao Exp sedayao $) id KAA18764; Wed, 17 Jan 2001 10:27:39 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: hip186.ch.intel.com: jreynold set sender to jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com using -f From: John Reynolds~ MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14949.47595.386503.70003@hip186.ch.intel.com> Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 08:27:39 -0700 (MST) To: Courvette Cc: FBSD-Q Subject: Re: Help with Tape Drive In-Reply-To: <20010117181924.A18085@poeza.iconnect.co.ke> References: <20010117181924.A18085@poeza.iconnect.co.ke> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under Emacs 20.6.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [ trimming cc: to just -questions ] [ On Wednesday, January 17, Courvette wrote: ] > Hello Pals, > Someone can help me with this one. After an upgrade to 4.2-STABLE from > 3.5-STABLE I am unable to use my tape drive -and consequently can't do > backups - we all know how serious that is.... > > I am in a dilemna:: > > wash:~$ mt status > mt: /dev/nsa0: Device not configured > > +++++ > wash:~$ cd /dev/ > wash:/dev$ ls -al *sa0 > crw-rw---- 4 root operator 14, 2 Jan 17 18:10 ersa0 > crw-rw---- 4 root operator 14, 2 Jan 17 18:10 esa0 > crw-rw---- 4 root operator 14, 1 Jan 17 18:10 nrsa0 > crw-rw---- 4 root operator 14, 1 Jan 17 18:10 nsa0 > crw-rw---- 4 root operator 14, 0 Jan 17 18:10 rsa0 > crw-rw---- 4 root operator 14, 0 Jan 17 18:10 sa0 > wash:/dev$ Just cuz the device files are there doesn't mean didly-squat. We'll need your relevent snippets (related to the tape) from your kernel config, the type of tape drive it is, and your 'dmesg' output after boot (/var/run/dmesg.boot). Then that might be enough information to go on ... -Jr -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= | John Reynolds WCCG, CCE, Higher Levels of Abstraction | | Intel Corporation MS: CH6-210 Phone: 480-554-9092 pgr: 602-868-6512 | | jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com http://www-aec.ch.intel.com/~jreynold/ | =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message