From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 11 11: 9:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC01437B423 for ; Fri, 11 May 2001 11:09:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id BEC1D6ACBC; Sat, 12 May 2001 03:39:45 +0930 (CST) Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 03:39:45 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Paje da Oca Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can FreeBSD handle SCSI tape? Message-ID: <20010512033945.R1201@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from root@maloca.oca.org.br on Fri, May 11, 2001 at 01:55:25PM -0300 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday, 11 May 2001 at 13:55:25 -0300, Paje da Oca wrote: > > 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. These error messages are trying to tell you something. Why didn't you quote them? > Has anybody managed to have such a device working? > Mine is recognized at boot time as: Archive Phyton, I'm pretty sure it's not. Why don't you quote the probe messages? > and the device being used is /dev/sa0. > > Thanks for any help or pointers to sources of possible help. Well, you can start with http://echunga.lemis.com/questions.html. It will help you formulate a question which stands some chance of a useful reply. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message