From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 25 18:11:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ds9.dreamhaven.org (dt0f4nfc.san.rr.com [24.94.22.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F153914E36 for ; Tue, 25 May 1999 18:11:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from data@ds9.dreamhaven.org) Received: from data (helo=localhost) by ds9.dreamhaven.org with local-esmtp (Exim 2.12 #2) id 10mSE2-0005YB-00; Tue, 25 May 1999 18:11:18 -0700 Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 18:11:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Bryce Newall X-Sender: data@ds9.dreamhaven.org To: Doug White Cc: FreeBSD Questions List Subject: Re: Onstream Tape Drive In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 25 May 1999, Doug White wrote: > > 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. Ok, good point. But I tried it using your method, and got the same thing. > Did you get any system log messages from your attempt with tar? Nope, not a thing. I guess that means it's not a kernel error message ? > `Device not configured' implies the device was not found during boot, > yet the probe message is there. It seemed to find it at boot time... I probably forgot to include this in my first message: Waiting 5 seconds for SCSI devices to settle sa0 at ahc2 bus 0 target 5 lun 0 sa0: Removable Sequential Access SCSI-2 device sa0: 10.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 7) There aren't any dmesg messages either about any sort of failure, so I'm at a loss. > What version of FreeBSD is this? 3.1-STABLE. We plan on upgrading to 3.2-STABLE once it's out. ********************************************************************** * Bryce Newall * Email: data@dreamhaven.net * * WWW: http://www.dreamhaven.net/~data * ICQ: 32620929 * * "Insanity takes its toll. Please have exact change." * ********************************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message