From owner-freebsd-scsi Fri Apr 6 11:56:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F1ED37B424 for ; Fri, 6 Apr 2001 11:56:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from beppo (beppo [192.67.166.79]) by feral.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA14352; Fri, 6 Apr 2001 11:56:40 -0700 Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 11:56:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: Ken Menzel Cc: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: can't use sa0 (tape) on -stable-rc1 fresh install In-Reply-To: <016601c0bea6$e79dc920$711663cf@icarz.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Ken Menzel wrote: > Thanks Matthew, we just figured out that the problem really was "the > device is not configured", well sort of. All the other tape drive in > the past from Dell have arrived pre-programmed to autoload the tape > when a cartridge is inserted. These two did not arrive that way! The > message I would have expected was a media error, not a "Device not > configured" error. Really sent me down the wrong path! Should I look > into this more? I really want to use these tape drives with the 'ch' > driver and get Amanda installed and working! > > Confused, but wanting to help in NJ, BTW is it a good idea/OK to run > with CAMDEBUG options on my test servers anyway? Nope, but it should be a FAQ that CAMDEBUG like this is needed to diagnose tape problems. > > Do you still want that output to see why it said "Device not > configured" when mt status should have given a status, and dump > should have told me to mount the volume! Could it be a bug in the > drive? > Bug in the spec for tapes && Unix, not the driver. (translation: I'd change it, but the conservatives within freebsd would hang me from the nearest tree, instead of searching for the highest as they usually do). -matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message