From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 27 13:37:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-10.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DB5D37B479; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 13:37:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.54.101] (helo=freebie.demon.nl) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with smtp (Exim 3.14 #2) id 140Vxu-0001hB-00; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 21:37:34 +0000 Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.demon.nl (8.11.1/8.11.0) id eARLajD01908; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 22:36:45 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 22:36:45 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte To: "Eric S. Nooden" Cc: Paul Southworth , Greg Lehey , Michael Hughes , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mounting a SCSI tape drive Message-ID: <20001127223645.C1846@freebie.demon.nl> References: <19991202195345.47886@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20001127144047.00b4c4f0@pop3.norton.antivirus> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20001127144047.00b4c4f0@pop3.norton.antivirus>; from noodene@beloit.edu on Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 02:43:35PM -0600 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 02:43:35PM -0600, Eric S. Nooden wrote: FYI: Nov 26 21:52:40 freebie /kernel: sa0: Removable Sequential Access SCSI-CCS device has been working well for me. Not that I use it very often, my DLT4000 is a lotter quicker/better. > I was in communication with Greg Lehey about this matter and at the time he > had not come up with a solution since he had not yet received the Exabyte > drives. I am also still interested in a solution since I have yet to back > up my system. > > Thanks, > Eric > > > At 01:03 PM 11/24/2000 -0500, Paul Southworth wrote: > > >[About a year ago there was a thread on freebsd-questions about Exabyte > >8200 drives which I would like to revive with the hope that someone found > >a solution.] > > > >On Thu, 2 Dec 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: > > > >:On Thursday, 2 December 1999 at 15:17:47 -0600, Eric S. Nooden wrote: > >:> At 02:29 PM 12/2/99 -0600, Michael Hughes wrote: > >:>> Eric S. Nooden said in email to me: > >:>>> > >:>>> I am running into some problems trying to mount a tape drive. When I > >run: > >:>>> > >:>>> mt -f /dev/nrsa0 rewind (or any command i.e. status) > >:>>> > >:>>> I get the following error message: > >:>>> > >:>>> (sa0:ahc0:0:4:0): MODE SENSE(06). CDB: 1a 0 0 0 c 0 > >:>>> (sa0:ahc0:0:4:0): ILLEGAL REQUEST > >:>>> > >:>>> ***I did notice that when the command ran, the light on the tape > >drive did > >:>>> flash. > >:>>> > >:>>> The file /var/log/messages reports the following about sa0: > >:>>> > >:>>> sa0: at ahc0 bus 0 target 4 lun 0 > >:>>> sa0: Removable Sequential Access SCSI-CCS device > >:>>> sa0: 3.300MB/s transfers > > > >I have what appears to be an almost identical drive. Mine is reported > >as " Removable Sequential Access SCSI-CCS device". -- Wilko Bulte Arnhem, the Netherlands wilko@freebsd.org http://www.freebsd.org http://www.nlfug.nl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message