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Date:      Tue, 11 Jul 2000 16:34:53 -0500
From:      Keith M Ives - Contractor - ASIM Tech <kmives@sorta.kelly.af.mil>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Looking for the tape drive
Message-ID:  <396B92FC.7D4B9195@sorta.kelly.af.mil>

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Hello,
Yes, I am a newbie to FreeBSD, but not to UNIX.
I want to see the tape drive status.  When I use the "mt status"
(defaults to /dev/nrsa0), the system echos back:
mt: /dev/nrsa0: Device not configured.
I can see the device in dmesg:
sa0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 4 lun 0
sa0: <Seagate STT20000N 6A51> Removable Sequential Access SCSI-2 device
sa0: 10.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 15)

I do not have a tape loaded, and this is where (in Solaris for example)
I would expect "...tape not loaded or drive offline".
Do I need to load a tape to get a status, or do I have bigger problems?
Thanks


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