From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 1 23:57:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA08266 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 1 Aug 1998 23:57:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from picasso.wcape.school.za (picasso.wcape.school.za [196.21.102.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA08250 for ; Sat, 1 Aug 1998 23:57:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pvh@leftside.wcape.school.za) Received: from uucp by picasso.wcape.school.za with local-rmail (Exim 1.92 #2) for questions@freebsd.org id 0z2s5B-0006Y4-00; Sun, 2 Aug 1998 08:57:29 +0200 Received: from localhost (pvh@localhost) by leftside.wcape.school.za (8.8.8/8.8.4) with SMTP id IAA20076 for ; Sun, 2 Aug 1998 08:56:19 +0200 (SAT) Date: Sun, 2 Aug 1998 08:56:17 +0200 (SAT) From: Peter van Heusden To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: EXA 8200 tape drive on FreeBSD Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi I'm trying to get a EXA 8200 tape drive working on FreeBSD. It is detected fine by the kernel during startup, and I can do a 'mt status' on it, with the following results: Present Mode: Density = 0x00 Blocksize variable ---------available modes--------- Mode 0: Density = 0x00 Blocksize variable Mode 1: Density = X3.136-1986 Blocksize = 512 bytes Mode 2: Density = X3.39-1986 Blocksize variable Mode 3: Density = X3.54-1986 Blocksize variable However, I cannot write to it at all - even after a 'mt erase', I get the following: bash# mt rewind bash# dd if=/kernel of=/dev/nrst0 bs=64 count=1024 dd: /dev/nrst0: Input/output error 1+0 records in 0+0 records out 0 bytes transferred in 0.082043 secs (0 bytes/sec) bash# with the console showing the following message: st0: oops not queued Is there anything else I can try to get this thing working, or should I just give up on it? Thanks, Peter -- Peter van Heusden | Its the 90's, and collective action is STILL cool! pvh@leftside.wcape.school.za | Get active in your union today! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message