From owner-freebsd-scsi Wed Oct 10 7:53:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from kermit.netivity.nl (wc-68.r-195-85-144.essentkabel.com [195.85.144.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2775137B407 for ; Wed, 10 Oct 2001 07:53:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: by KERMIT with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Wed, 10 Oct 2001 16:53:30 +0200 Message-ID: <510EAC2065C0D311929200A02472526237A396@NETIVITY-FS> From: Enriko Groen To: "'freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org'" Subject: RE: sa0 not mounted? Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 16:53:25 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > -----Original Message----- > From: randall ehren [mailto:randall@isber.ucsb.edu] > > are you trying to mount the tape like a hard disk? if so, you can't do > such a thing. to write to the tape you must use a program > like 'dump' or > 'dd', and to retreive information from the tape you must use something > like 'restore' I was trying tar... but even an "mt inquiry" on the sa0 device won't work. Like I mentioned... device sa is in the kernel; but it doesn't show up at boottime (dmesg). I can however quiry and manipulate the device through the corosponding pass-device. -- Enriko Groen, Hosting manager -------------------------------------------------------- netivity bv www.netivity.nl enriko.groen@netivity.nl 038 - 850 1000 van nagellstraat 4 8011 eb zwolle -------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message