From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 16 4:16:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from isy.liu.se (isy.liu.se [130.236.48.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2D3137B670 for ; Mon, 16 Oct 2000 04:16:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lagrange.isy.liu.se (lagrange.isy.liu.se [130.236.49.127]) by isy.liu.se (8.10.0/8.10.0) with ESMTP id e9GBGOn13518 for ; Mon, 16 Oct 2000 13:16:24 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 13:16:17 +0200 (CEST) From: Micke Josefsson To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Slightly off topic: Wangtek 5150ES Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I recently found an old Wangtek 5150 ES tape drive in the basement. I can't get it to work. It identifies during boot as: sa0 at ncr0 bus 0 target 2 lun 0 sa0: Removable Sequential Access SCSI-CCS device sa0: 3.300MB/s transfers And also does mt-commands as expected but tar'ring or dump'ing to it makes it squirm a bit. mt status: lagrange# mt -f /dev/rsa0 stat Mode Density Blocksize bpi Compression Current: 0x10:QIC-150 512 bytes 10000 unsupported ---------available modes--------- 0: 0x10:QIC-150 512 bytes 10000 unsupported 1: 0x10:QIC-150 512 bytes 10000 unsupported 2: 0x10:QIC-150 512 bytes 10000 unsupported 3: 0x10:QIC-150 512 bytes 10000 unsupported --------------------------------- Current Driver State: at rest. --------------------------------- File Number: 0 Record Number: 0 But: lagrange# tar cf /dev/rsa0 vinum.4.ps tar: can't write to /dev/rsa0 : Invalid argument. (vinum.4.ps is just a plain text file) Where do I go wrong? I have a 525Meg tape in the drive. Is it possible that the tape is not recognized? Do I have to use another (150Meg?) tape? This is not strictly a FreeBSD-question, I know, but it sits on a FreeBSD box so...? Help appreciated! /Micke . ---------------------------------- Michael Josefsson, MSEE mj@isy.liu.se This message was sent by XFMail running on FreeBSD 3.5-STABLE ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message