From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 22 6:38:14 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp012.mail.yahoo.com (smtp012.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.173.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 260F337B431 for ; Mon, 22 Apr 2002 06:38:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?@.aging.cpaaa.org (HELO yahoo.com) (jlboss@165.201.71.250 with plain) by smtp.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 22 Apr 2002 13:33:16 -0000 Message-ID: <3CC41158.6010309@yahoo.com> Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 08:34:16 -0500 From: "Justin L. Boss" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020314 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: jason+freebsd@kanda.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Someone please help with backup problem References: <20020422131253.L1509-100000@uk2.kanda-systems.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Yes, the write protected is set to unlocked. jason+freebsd@kanda.com wrote: > On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Justin L. Boss wrote: > > >>ls -l /dev/ast0 >>crw-r----- 1 root operator 119, 0 Apr 20 20:30 /dev/ast0 >> >>should it be different, I'm doing this as root? >> > > That looks quite normal. Have you checked that your tape is not write > protected? > > Jason > > _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message