From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 17 8: 2:46 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 7334937B400 for ; Wed, 17 Jan 2001 08:02:21 -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 14Iv0y-000D8e-00; Wed, 17 Jan 2001 19:00:50 +0300 Received: from wash by poeza.iconnect.co.ke with local (Exim 3.20 #1) id 14Iv2a-0004zL-00; Wed, 17 Jan 2001 19:02:28 +0300 Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 19:02:28 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington To: Glen Foster Cc: FBSD-Q Subject: Re: Help with Tape Drive Message-ID: <20010117190228.B19128@poeza.iconnect.co.ke> Mail-Followup-To: Odhiambo Washington , Glen Foster , FBSD-Q References: <20010117181924.A18085@poeza.iconnect.co.ke> <14949.49357.770431.84542@rr.gfoster.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <14949.49357.770431.84542@rr.gfoster.com>; from "Glen Foster" on Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 10:57:01AM -0500 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 * Glen Foster [20010117 18:58]: writing on the subject 'Help with Tape Drive' Glen> You will get "not configured" if there is no tape in the drive. BTW in 3.5 my tape used to be rsa0 - I wonder why it is now nsa0?? Glen> Glen> Courvette writes: Glen> > Hello Pals, Glen> > Someone can help me with this one. After an upgrade to 4.2-STABLE from Glen> > 3.5-STABLE I am unable to use my tape drive -and consequently can't do Glen> > backups - we all know how serious that is.... Glen> > Glen> > I am in a dilemna:: Glen> > Glen> > wash:~$ mt status Glen> > mt: /dev/nsa0: Device not configured Glen> > Glen> > +++++ Glen> > wash:~$ cd /dev/ Glen> > wash:/dev$ ls -al *sa0 Glen> > crw-rw---- 4 root operator 14, 2 Jan 17 18:10 ersa0 Glen> > crw-rw---- 4 root operator 14, 2 Jan 17 18:10 esa0 Glen> > crw-rw---- 4 root operator 14, 1 Jan 17 18:10 nrsa0 Glen> > crw-rw---- 4 root operator 14, 1 Jan 17 18:10 nsa0 Glen> > crw-rw---- 4 root operator 14, 0 Jan 17 18:10 rsa0 Glen> > crw-rw---- 4 root operator 14, 0 Jan 17 18:10 sa0 Glen> > wash:/dev$ Glen> > Glen> > Glen> > -Wash Glen> > Glen> > -- Glen> > Odhiambo Washington Inter-Connect Ltd., Glen> > wash@iconnect.co.ke 5th Flr Furaha Plaza Glen> > Tel: 254 11 222604 Nkrumah Rd., Glen> > Fax: 254 11 222636 PO Box 83613 MOMBASA, KE. Glen> > Glen> > Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live. -Margaret Fuller Glen> > Glen> > Glen> > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org Glen> > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message -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. A hundred years from now it is very likely that [of Twain's works] "The Jumping Frog" alone will be remembered. -Harry Thurston Peck (Editor of "The Bookman"), January 1901 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message