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From: Devin Smith <devin-freebsdquestions@rintrah.org>
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Subject: Re: OnStream 30GB drive on Free BSD
Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2001 20:03:54 -0400
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>Hello~
>I have an OnStream SC-30 ADR tape drive I am trying to get to work under
>Free BSD 4.3 Stable.  If I look at the output of dmesg I see:
>
>sa0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 6 lun 0
>sa0: <OnStream SC-30 1.02> Removable Sequential Access SCSI-2 device
>sa0: 10.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 7)
>
>I did a "sh ./MAKEDEV sa0" and the device now shows up but...
>any time I try to access the device via mt or dump I get an error.  An
>example would be:
>
># mt -f /dev/sa0 rewind
># mt: /dev/sa0: Invalid Argument
>
>or in the case of the "dump" command it runs through the normal setup
>and then gives me a:
>
>DUMP: Cannot open output "/dev/sa0"
>
>Any Ideas?
>Thanks in advance for any help!
>
>fevin

Last I checked you could not use the Onstream 30 drives under FreeBSD
because they require software to do their error checking. This software
has been integrated into the 2.4 linux kernel but has not yet been ported
to FreeBSD.

--devin

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