From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Sep 1 13: 0:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from smtp1a.ispchannel.com (smtp.ispchannel.com [24.142.63.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE50937B42C for ; Fri, 1 Sep 2000 13:00:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.1.2.23] by smtp1a.ispchannel.com (InterMail vK.4.02.00.00 201-232-116 license 7d3764cdaca754bf8ae20adf0db2aa60) with SMTP id <20000901200236.MRQX7586.smtp1a@[10.1.2.23]>; Fri, 1 Sep 2000 13:02:36 -0700 From: To: echriste@ssesco.com Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with tape drive Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 13:01:19 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20000901200236.MRQX7586.smtp1a@[10.1.2.23]> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >I don't know if I should post this here or on the scsi list, but I'm sure >I'll be told if I'm wrong. I've been having a problem with my tape drive >and I have a solution, I just don't know if it's the correct solution. I'm >running 4.1 stable and have a drive that gets recognized as a Tandberg TDC >3800 (see dmesg output that follows) with DC6525 tapes. I have scsi and sa >in the kernel and everything set up correctly, but whenever I try to do >anything with the tape drive I get an error. > >$ sudo mt status >mt: /dev/nsa0: Invalid argument >(sa0:sym0:0:5:0): unable to set fixed blocksize to 1024 Reported this a few weeks ago and it's still broken. Use 'mt -f /dev/nrsa0 status' and it will work. The 'dev/nsa0' comes from a define in mtio.h It used to work... Mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message