From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 17 7:40:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from siafu.iconnect.co.ke (upagraha.iconnect.co.ke [209.198.248.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A6D537B69B for ; Wed, 17 Jan 2001 07:40:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from [64.110.74.50] (helo=poeza.iconnect.co.ke) by siafu.iconnect.co.ke with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 14Iue3-000BbV-00; Wed, 17 Jan 2001 18:37:09 +0300 Received: from wash by poeza.iconnect.co.ke with local (Exim 3.20 #1) id 14Iuff-0004ng-00; Wed, 17 Jan 2001 18:38:47 +0300 Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 18:38:47 +0300 From: Courvette To: John Reynolds~ Cc: FBSD-Q Subject: Re: Help with Tape Drive Message-ID: <20010117183847.C18085@poeza.iconnect.co.ke> Mail-Followup-To: Courvette , John Reynolds~ , FBSD-Q References: <20010117181924.A18085@poeza.iconnect.co.ke> <14949.47595.386503.70003@hip186.ch.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <14949.47595.386503.70003@hip186.ch.intel.com>; from "John Reynolds~" on Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 08:27:39AM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD poeza.iconnect.co.ke 4.2-STABLE FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE X-Mailer: Mutt http://www.mutt.org/ X-Location: Mombasa, KE, East Africa Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * John Reynolds~ [20010117 18:28]: writing on the subject 'Re: Help with Tape Drive' John> John> [ trimming cc: to just -questions ] John> John> [ On Wednesday, January 17, Courvette wrote: ] John> > Hello Pals, John> > Someone can help me with this one. After an upgrade to 4.2-STABLE from John> > 3.5-STABLE I am unable to use my tape drive -and consequently can't do John> > backups - we all know how serious that is.... John> > John> > I am in a dilemna:: John> > John> > wash:~$ mt status John> > mt: /dev/nsa0: Device not configured John> > John> > +++++ John> > wash:~$ cd /dev/ John> > wash:/dev$ ls -al *sa0 John> > crw-rw---- 4 root operator 14, 2 Jan 17 18:10 ersa0 John> > crw-rw---- 4 root operator 14, 2 Jan 17 18:10 esa0 John> > crw-rw---- 4 root operator 14, 1 Jan 17 18:10 nrsa0 John> > crw-rw---- 4 root operator 14, 1 Jan 17 18:10 nsa0 John> > crw-rw---- 4 root operator 14, 0 Jan 17 18:10 rsa0 John> > crw-rw---- 4 root operator 14, 0 Jan 17 18:10 sa0 John> > wash:/dev$ John> John> Just cuz the device files are there doesn't mean didly-squat. We'll need your John> relevent snippets (related to the tape) from your kernel config, the type of John> tape drive it is, and your 'dmesg' output after boot John> (/var/run/dmesg.boot). Then that might be enough information to go on ... Thanks John. I've sent that to -questions. The tape drive is those HP T20s. -Wash -- Odhiambo Washington Inter-Connect Ltd., wash@iconnect.co.ke 5th Flr Furaha Plaza Tel: 254 11 222604 Nkrumah Rd., Fax: 254 11 222636 PO Box 83613 MOMBASA, KE. Women want mediocre men. And men are working hard to become as medicore as possible. -Margaret Mead To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message