Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 10:34:13 EDT From: "Tremayne Smith" <tmane333@hotmail.com> To: oscars@mail.utexas.edu, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Still having tape drive problems? Message-ID: <20000425143413.58946.qmail@hotmail.com>
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Well Oscar, First thanx for the response, I am pretty new myself. Yes the OS does find the tape devices as sa0, in a previous message I stated that whenever I type a command like mt -f /dev/r or nr sa0 fsf -1 I would get a device not configured message. And I recieved a few responses that I shouldn't use negative file numbers and that I should make sure that my device was loading at start up or something to that effect. So I took a look at the boot log and the device was loaded as sa0 and I tried to give the above command with a positive file number with no success. So then I tried to type just a very generic command of mt status and also mt rewind, and my tape ejects after issuing those commands. I am not sure if my environment variable pointing to the proper device I will check to be sure, but I wanted to let you know more about my situation so that you'd have more info to base a solution on. Thanx again. >From: Oscar Ricardo Silva <oscars@mail.utexas.edu> >To: "Tremayne Smith" <tmane333@hotmail.com> >Subject: Re: Still having tape drive problems? >Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 08:58:23 -0500 > >You might want to first set the environment variable TAPE to point to your >tape device. I haven't been following the previous messages so don't quite >know the state you're in now. Does the operating system properly find the >tape device when you boot? When issuing the mt commands, are you using the >"-f" switch and are you using the non-rewinding device name? For example, >if your tape drive is detected as "sa0", then you should try "mt -f >/dev/nrsa0 status" which indicates the non-rewinding device. > >When you type "mt status", what happens? Does the tape get ejected on that >command? > >I'll tell you know, I'm fairly new to all of this (FreeBSD and tape drives) >but having stumbled through some of this, I may be able to help. > > >Oscar > >At 09:35 AM 4/25/00 -0400, Tremayne Smith, you wrote: >>Hi everyone, >> >>As far as I can tell from my boot record my tape device has loaded >>properly, but whenever I type any kind of mt command, like mt status, my >>tape drive spits out the tape and then gives the message that the device >>isn't configured. This may be a hardware issue, but before I replace the >>drive I was hoping that someone may have at least one more suggestion for >>me to try. Thanx in advance. > > > > >"Don't believe the hype" > ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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