Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 16:51:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Bryce Newall <data@dreamhaven.net> Cc: FreeBSD Questions List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Onstream Tape Drive Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9905251649500.13061-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.4.10.9905251600060.86244-100000@ds9.dreamhaven.org>
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On Tue, 25 May 1999, Bryce Newall wrote: > Greetings! > > I was wondering if anyone has used one of the new Onstream SC-30 or SC-50 > SCSI tape drives with FreeBSD? We just purchased one for one of our > systems and installed it. The kernel recognizes it at bootup: > > sa0 at ahc2 bus 0 target 5 lun 0 > sa0: <OnStream SC-30 1.01> Removable Sequential Access SCSI-2 device > sa0: 10.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 7) > > However, when I try to back anything up to it, using either tar or dump, I > get these messages: > > tar: Cannot open /dev/rsa0: Device not configured > tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now Hm. > DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Tue May 25 17:01:35 1999 > DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch > DUMP: Dumping /home/data to /dev/rsa0 > DUMP: bad sblock magic number > DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted. You can't dump directories, you must dump filesystems. Say '/dev/da0s1a', for instance. > I did make sure the device sa0 existed in /dev; it does. I even tried > re-creating it with the MAKEDEV script; same problem. Support is compiled > into the kernel, by the way. Any thoughs or suggestions? Did you get any system log messages from your attempt with tar? `Device not configured' implies the device was not found during boot, yet the probe message is there. What version of FreeBSD is this? Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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