From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 19 16:27:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta5.snfc21.pbi.net (mta5.snfc21.pbi.net [206.13.28.241]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB2E637B724 for ; Mon, 19 Mar 2001 16:27:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fscked@pacbell.net) Received: from pacbell.net ([63.204.133.159]) by mta5.snfc21.pbi.net (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.2000.01.05.12.18.p9) with ESMTP id <0GAG004FGZSEHL@mta5.snfc21.pbi.net> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 19 Mar 2001 16:24:14 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 16:37:52 -0800 From: richard childers Subject: Re: Error message To: Jon-Eirik Pettersen Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: <3AB6A660.68C27B31@pacbell.net> Organization: The Free State of Dis MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (WinNT; U) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en References: <001501c0afec$83229c00$073da8c0@pentium200> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG What is the command you are typing? Do you have any environmental variables set which might influence tar(1)'s default selection of the device? Can you operate the device using mt(1) ? Can you access the device using the '-f' flag to either tar(1) or mt(1)? -- richard Jon-Eirik Pettersen wrote: > I getting this error message when I using TAR:"tar : Can't open > /dev/rsa0 : Device not configured". -- Richard A. Childers Senor UNIX Administrator fscked@pacbell.net (email) 415.664.6291 (voice/msgs) # Providing administrative expertise (not 'damage control') since 1986. # PGP fingerprint: 7EFF 164A E878 7B04 8E9F 32B6 72C2 D8A2 582C 4AFA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message