From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 11 10:41:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2849D37B423 for ; Fri, 11 May 2001 10:41:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f4BHfBD17773; Fri, 11 May 2001 12:41:11 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 12:41:11 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Paje da Oca Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can FreeBSD handle SCSI tape? Message-ID: <20010511124111.C2528@dan.emsphone.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.17i In-Reply-To: ; from "Paje da Oca" on Fri May 11 13:55:25 GMT 2001 X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (May 11), Paje da Oca said: > A SCSI tape drive is recognized at boot time, but, when I try > to access it (using "tar", for example), I get lots of error > messages. What kind of errors? I've used Python, DLT, Exabyte, 3480, 3490e, and 9-track tape drives on FreeBSD with no problems. what does "camcontrol inq sa0" print, and are there any interesing errors in /var/log/messages? -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message