From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 28 8: 2:36 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from PHSEXCHICO2.Partners.org (phsexchico2.partners.org [170.223.254.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C26137B41A for ; Thu, 28 Mar 2002 08:02:29 -0800 (PST) Received: by phsexchico2.partners.org with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Thu, 28 Mar 2002 11:02:28 -0500 Message-ID: <375F68784081D511908A00508BE3BB17DDDCFC@phsexch22.mgh.harvard.edu> From: "Morse, Richard E." To: 'messmate' Cc: freebsd-questions-en Subject: RE: as0 device Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 11:02:27 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" 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 messmate [mailto:messmate@free.fr] wrote: >On Thu, 28 Mar 2002 10:08:14 -0500 "Morse, Richard E." wrote: >| messmate [mailto:messmate@free.fr] wrote: >| >Hello, >| >can't untar xxx.tar. >| >error : device as0 not configured !! >| >What about that device ? >| >| Hi! How are you calling 'tar' -- ie, what command line are you using? > >OK, >tar -xf zzz.tar Hmmmm.... I had thought it might be because you were leaving off the f, so it was trying to read from a tape drive. You might want to look at the man page for tar, (or the info pages), and try to determine when it tries to read from a tape device. You might try seeing if there is something set in your environment that is setting the tape drive to as0 -- it should be default be sa0. You could also try using the long form of the command -- something like tar --extract --file=zzz.tar if I remember correctly.... HTH, Ricky To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message