From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Apr 29 13:51: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from smtp13.bellglobal.com (smtp13.bellglobal.com [204.101.251.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64EC9152E6 for ; Thu, 29 Apr 1999 13:51:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jim.chapman@sympatico.ca) Received: from LOCALNAME (ppp34.on.bellglobal.com [206.172.245.34]) by smtp13.bellglobal.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id QAA06496 for ; Thu, 29 Apr 1999 16:51:55 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <37288039.1975@sympatico.ca> Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 16:52:25 +0100 From: Jim Chapman Reply-To: jim.chapman@sympatico.ca X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (Win16; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-newbies@Freebsd.org Subject: ATAPI Tapes Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I installed release 3.1 from the Walnut Creek CD. I have a Seagate IDE/ATAPI tape drive. It is configured correctly (I believe) but I can't use it. My questions are Do I need to initialize the device or the tape before I use it. Mount is only for block devices. The wst man page talks about modes and closing the device. The mt man page gives some info and I can erase and rewind the tape using mt. dump fails after writing the backup, maybe when trying to rewind. dd writes a file but gets a an EOD error when trying to read it. tar does the same thing and also gives a message about an invalid tar header. A search of the archives turned up a lot of tape questions but nothing that helped. I would appreciate it if someone could reply who has actually got one of these devices to work. I am getting very frustrated. I assume there is some simple thing I have missed as I am new to Unix. Thanks, Jim Chapman To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message