From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 26 13:35:47 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id NAA00586 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 26 May 1995 13:35:47 -0700 Received: from epfl1.epflbalto.org (epfl1.epflbalto.org [192.188.199.2]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id NAA00580 for ; Fri, 26 May 1995 13:35:45 -0700 Received: from metnet.epflbalto.org by epfl1.epflbalto.org (5.65/1.35) id AA17157; Fri, 26 May 95 16:34:16 -0400 To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Tape Drive Woes X-Status: ON 32768 Date: Fri, 26 May 95 16:25:09 EDT From: Paul Browning Message-Id: <9505261625.aa25042@metnet.metnet.epflbalto.org> Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I have an Adaptec 284x local bus SCSI card with one device attached: an Exabyte FS1G tape drive. When booting the system, BSD tells me that the card is device st0 and the tape drive is device 0 on the card. It shows my tape drive as having density code 0x92. Whenever I do a "mt status", I get the following: st0:Cannot set selected mode 7:unknown tape drive type A "mt rewind" rewinds the tape, but I get the following: st0: cannot set selected mode Is there somewhere that I need to set parameters for my tape drive, or am I doomed with incompatible hardware? -------------------------------------------------------------------- | Paul Browning paulb@metnet.epflbalto.org | | | | "Modems are my life....." "O.J. who?" | --------------------------------------------------------------------