From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 20 16:17:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com [65.24.0.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D0D537B405 for ; Mon, 20 Aug 2001 16:17:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wmoran@iowna.com) Received: from iowna.com (dhcp065-024-023-038.columbus.rr.com [65.24.23.38]) by clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f7KNDZL17634 for ; Mon, 20 Aug 2001 19:13:35 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3B819A97.62AB2A47@iowna.com> Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 19:17:43 -0400 From: Bill Moran X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.4-RC i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Unix Backup Options References: <3B817889.681AC1C5@jwebmedia.com> <3B817DAB.689A522C@iowna.com> <3B818768.C276E696@jwebmedia.com> <3B81882E.51970B49@iowna.com> <3B818C0C.E7661ADA@jwebmedia.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I don't see any SCSI adapter detected in your dmesg. What sort of SCSI adapter is it? Are you sure it's supported? You may have to recompile a custom kernel to detect it if it's not in the GENERIC kernel. -Bill Joseph Koenig wrote: > > Ugh...I don't see the drive being recognized on startup...Below is my > dmesg. Maybe I just don't know what I'm looking for. Any ideas? Thanks, > > Joe > Bill Moran wrote: > > > > Joseph Koenig wrote: > > > > > > Bill, thanks for the info. My system should be able to fit on the tape. > > > Does dump compress the data automatically, or should my tape drive do > > > that? > > > > dump doesn't do software compression, but it supports hardware compression > > if your tape drive does it. use "mt" to check and turn on compression if > > needed. > > > > > Are SCSI tape drives usually at /dev/st0? /dev/st0 isn't found on > > > my system. > > > > No, SCSI tapes will be /dev/sa# (/dev/sa0) If you don't have it, try > > using /dev/MAKEDEV to create the device. Check dmesg to see if it's > > detected at bootup, if it is, it'll probably work fine. -- "Where's the robot to pat you on the back?" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message