Date: Sat, 27 May 1995 13:16:17 -0700 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.cdrom.com> To: Paul Browning <paulb@metnet.epflbalto.org> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Tape Drive Woes Message-ID: <199505272016.NAA01531@freefall.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 26 May 95 16:25:09 EDT." <9505261625.aa25042@metnet.metnet.epflbalto.org>
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>I have an Adaptec 284x local bus SCSI card with one device attached: >an Exabyte FS1G tape drive. When booting the system, BSD tells me >that the card is device st0 and the tape drive is device 0 on the card. >It shows my tape drive as having density code 0x92. > >Whenever I do a "mt status", I get the following: >st0:Cannot set selected mode 7:unknown tape drive type > >A "mt rewind" rewinds the tape, but I get the following: >st0: cannot set selected mode > >Is there somewhere that I need to set parameters for my tape drive, or am I >doomed with incompatible hardware? > I think this is because mt just doesn't believe that a type 7 device is allowed. I'm sure that if you modify the mt source to allow setting to type 7 or identifying type 7 devices, everything will work fine. > >-------------------------------------------------------------------- >| Paul Browning paulb@metnet.epflbalto.org | >| | >| "Modems are my life....." "O.J. who?" | >-------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Justin T. Gibbs ============================================== TCS Instructional Group - Programmer/Analyst 1 Cory | Po | Danube | Volga | Parker | Torus ==============================================
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