From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 3 11:57: 7 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFAFE37B406 for ; Wed, 3 Jul 2002 11:57:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (bgm-24-24-79-198.stny.rr.com [24.24.79.198]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A70943E31 for ; Wed, 3 Jul 2002 11:57:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from syborg@stny.rr.com) Received: by janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (Postfix, from userid 507) id 268874FA6B; Wed, 3 Jul 2002 14:57:30 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2150D4A0B for ; Wed, 3 Jul 2002 14:57:30 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 14:57:30 -0400 (EDT) From: John Bleichert X-X-Sender: syborg@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org Reply-To: John Bleichert To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: backup problems In-Reply-To: <38D1C71A-8EB1-11D6-9688-00039368B8EC@newtonsecond.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 3 Jul 2002, Michelle Weeks wrote: > > Also mt rewind to test commands. If you post your dmesg with lines > > detecting the tape drive, that would help. > > mt -f /dev/nrsa0 rewind seemed to work. i did not get any error > messages back. i'm sorry, i'm a newbie and don't know what you mean > when you say post your dmesg with lines detecting the tape drive. did > you mean to show the output that i posted above from the mt status > command? > > thank you!! > > michelle > The 'dmesg' command produces a bunch of information on what devices and modules have been configured by the kernel (see the dmesg man page). I don't know anything about tape drives, but assuming that /dev/nrs* thingy above is one, this would be a way to check dmesg for it: $ dmesg | grep nrs Also, just perusing the output of dmesg (or the dmesg file itself) can be really informative. Hope this helps! JB /* * John Bleichert * syborg@stny.rr.com * http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg */ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message