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Date:      Wed, 30 Jun 1999 13:49:28 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Gareth Klose <gareth@profero.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Tape Drive Addition Problem.
Message-ID:  <19990630134928.S85121@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9906291609170.2913-100000@ben.profero.com>; from Gareth Klose on Tue, Jun 29, 1999 at 04:12:52PM %2B0100
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9906291609170.2913-100000@ben.profero.com>

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On Tuesday, 29 June 1999 at 16:12:52 +0100, Gareth Klose wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to add a compaq tape (dds3) drive to a box, running 3.0-RELEASE
> #0.  This drive is correctly picked up by the host adaptor on startup.
>
> I've recompiled the kernel, run makedev and I've got rsa0.0 - rsa0.4 and
> the corresponding ersa and nrsa devices, but all of these respond with
> "device not configured"...

"Device not configured" means that you have found the driver (so the
file names in /dev are OK), but the driver can't find the tape.

> Is there anything else I have to do to make a tape device work?

You shouldn't even need to do that.  What does dmesg say?

Greg
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