From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 29 21:19:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D5B7150FF for ; Tue, 29 Jun 1999 21:19:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id NAA27017; Wed, 30 Jun 1999 13:49:29 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id NAA74159; Wed, 30 Jun 1999 13:49:28 +0930 (CST) Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 13:49:28 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Gareth Klose Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tape Drive Addition Problem. Message-ID: <19990630134928.S85121@freebie.lemis.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: ; from Gareth Klose on Tue, Jun 29, 1999 at 04:12:52PM +0100 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message