From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 6 12:48:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from apollo.ocsny.com (apollo.ocsny.com [204.107.76.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D84A37C216; Thu, 6 Jul 2000 12:48:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mikel@ocsny.com) Received: from ocsny.com (thoth.upan.org [204.107.76.16]) by apollo.ocsny.com (8.9.2/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA38762; Thu, 6 Jul 2000 15:49:23 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3964E409.C58E5EFA@ocsny.com> Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2000 15:54:50 -0400 From: Mikel Organization: Optimized Computer Solutions, Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en,it MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Gradwell Cc: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing HP SureStore Tape Drive References: <4.2.2.20000706091739.03e7c100@mail.gradwell.com> Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------69F42748FB639FB1A2C2C8C6" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------69F42748FB639FB1A2C2C8C6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Peter, Ok now this may sound like a silly question but what happens when you run tar? try this... cd / tar cvp etc/ >/var/logs/bu.log then email a snip of the bu.log -- Cheers, Mikel +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+ | Optimized Computer Solutions, Inc http://www.ocsny.com | 39 W14th Street, Suite 203 212 727 2238 x132 | New York, NY 10011 +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+ Peter Gradwell wrote: > Hi, > > I'm the proud owner of a not insignificant LAN and an HP SureStore DAT 24x6 > [1] Drive. > I'm trying to put them together and have backups! > > I'm running FreeBSD 4-STABLE, using an Adaptec 2940. I have an unchanged > GENERIC kernel. > On boot, in /var/log/messages, we see: > > ahc0: port 0x1000-0x10ff mem > 0xf4201000-0xf4201fff irq 10 at device 15.0 on pci0 > ahc0: aic7870 Single Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 16/255 SCBs > > [..] > > Waiting 15 seconds for SCSI devices to settle > sa0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 3 lun 0 > sa0: Removable Sequential Access SCSI-2 device > sa0: 10.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 15) > pass1 at ahc0 bus 0 target 3 lun 1 > pass1: Removable Changer SCSI-2 device > pass1: 10.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 15) > > however, I am seriously struggling to work out which device this > drive is operating on. > > Firstly, according to `man mt`, this drive will operate on one of any of the > /dev/*rsa* devices. However, doing > > mt -f status > - only results in a "Device not configured". > > Secondly, /dev/ch0, the tape changer device is also "not configured". > > Thirdly, despite doing > sh /dev/MAKEDEV sa0 > - /dev/sa0 doesn't exist. > > Finally, if I try an do some other command using mt, say, setting the > density or trying to otherwise configure the drive, then I get the same error. > > If anyone has any clues as to how to get this drive mounted > and working on a device, so I can move onto page one of the book > I'd be for ever grateful! > > many thanks > peter > > [1] http://www.hp.com/tape/datasheets/dat24x6.html > > -- > peter at gradwell dot com; online @ http://www.gradwell.com/ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message --------------69F42748FB639FB1A2C2C8C6 Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name="mikel.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Card for Mikel Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="mikel.vcf" begin:vcard n:King;Mikel tel;fax:2124638402 tel;home:http://www.upan.org tel;work:2127272100 x-mozilla-html:TRUE org:Optimized Computer Solutions version:2.1 email;internet:mikel@ocsny.com title:Director of Network Operations & Technology adr;quoted-printable:;;39 W14th St.=0D=0ASte 203;New York;NY;10011;US note;quoted-printable:fBSD, PHP, MySql and OCS Rule!!!=0D=0A=0D=0AGoal is to be MS free by the end of 2k. x-mozilla-cpt:;7312 fn:Mikel King end:vcard --------------69F42748FB639FB1A2C2C8C6-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message