From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 17 19:38:36 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA26329 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 17 Apr 1997 19:38:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from churchill.apic.net (root@churchill.apic.net [203.26.193.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA26320 for ; Thu, 17 Apr 1997 19:38:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jefferson (jefferson.apic.net [203.22.101.10]) by churchill.apic.net (8.8.5/APIC-1.0) with SMTP id MAA01136 for ; Fri, 18 Apr 1997 12:38:16 +1000 (EST) X-Org: The Asia Pacific Internet Company Pty. Ltd. Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.19970418133820.00aaf2a0@mail.apic.net> X-Sender: adrian@mail.apic.net X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.1 (32) Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 13:38:20 +1000 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org From: Adrian Carter Subject: tape drives In-Reply-To: <199704180031.KAA05097@horn.it.uq.edu.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi Guys, Just got a Sony SDT-5200 DAT drive along with an Adaptec AHA-2910 SCSI card (ahc0). BSD detects and recognises the drive, and an mt status returns good data. However, using mt erase just sends the drive into permanent 'busy' mode, never ending the task, and kill -1,-9,-ABRT all refuse to kill the process, and issuing a reboot shuts down from multi-user, but never reboots. I have to manually reset the machine. I also installed amanda, and it exhibits similar problems. amlabel can label the tape, but dumps dont actually work. amcheck however, repots no problem. SO what am I missing here? Im using /dev/nrst0 as the device, and the DAT unit works fine under Winslow NT 3.51 (thats where it lived for 2 weeks before moving into the UN*X server). Any assitance would be greatly appreciated. I jsut cant seem to find any good info on setting up backups under FreeBSD, so even if you just wann tell me to RTFM, Im happy to do so, just tell me somewhere with good FreeBSD info on tapes/backups !! =) Thanks in advance Adrian -- ************************************************************************* *Adrian Carter Email: adrian@apic.net * *Systems Administrator URL: http://www.apic.net/ * *The Asia Pacific Internet Company Pty Ltd Autoresp: info@apic.net * * Internet Access, Web Housing, Mailing List Management * * Phone: (+612) 9419-5333 Fax: (+612) 9419-5155 * *************************************************************************