Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 14:14:46 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: keith@mail.telestream.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DLT 4000 Message-ID: <20000510141445.N86264@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10005092131100.28901-100000@mail.telestream.com> References: <20000510135842.L86264@freebie.lemis.com> <Pine.LNX.4.10.10005092131100.28901-100000@mail.telestream.com>
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On Tuesday, 9 May 2000 at 21:42:54 -0700, keith@mail.telestream.com wrote: > On Wed, 10 May 2000, Greg Lehey wrote: > >> On Tuesday, 9 May 2000 at 21:26:23 -0700, keith@mail.telestream.com wrote: >>> On Wed, 10 May 2000, Greg Lehey wrote: >>> >>>> On Tuesday, 9 May 2000 at 15:28:24 -0700, keith@mail.telestream.com wrote: >>>>> I've just installed an internal Quantum DLT 4000 tape system into a >>>>> machine and assumed things would be as they were with the old tape device >>>>> as far as the device name and all. Here is how things are going so far, >>>>> with little success I might add. I've no experience with DLT so any advice >>>>> there would be appreciated too. >>>>> >>>>> # mt -f /dev/nrsa0 status >>>>> mt: /dev/nrsa0: Input/output error >>>>> # >>>>> >>>>> Any idea's as to what may be the problem. >>>> >>>> No, you didn't give us any useful information. What does dmesg say? >>> >>> Sorry, always seem to foget. :) >>> >>> FreBSD 4.0-stable >>> >>> sa0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 5 lun 0 >>> sa0: <DEC DLT4000 CC1E> Removable Sequential Access SCSI-2 device >>> sa0: 10.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 15) >> >> Looks OK. Do you have a tape in the drive? What indicators are on? >> Do you get any console messages? > > Everything is set according to the pdf file on Quantums site. TermPwr etc. > Have a clean new tape in and there is no problem with the status LED's on > the front. The compression light is on and the tape in use light as well, > as is normal. We have an NT server in NJ of the same type so dispite > having no documentaion at hand I'm confident the LED's are correct. > I initialy thought it could have been that I didn't have the device in > /dev or that I was calling it by the wrong dev but dmesg pretty much rules > that out. What about /var/log/messages? Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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