Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 21:57:17 -0700 (PDT) From: <keith@mail.telestream.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DLT 4000 Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10005092146400.29007-100000@mail.telestream.com> In-Reply-To: <20000510141445.N86264@freebie.lemis.com>
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Nothing in messages at all. I think the drive is hosed. NT can't do anything with it either. All appears just fine in NT until I actualy try to do a backup. Says it can't rewind device after initial read of tape. Everything installed just fine for the thing and the driver in NT installed fine too. My just rewards for buying off of ebay I suppose. :-/ Keith ================================= I here by change the name of RedHat to RedSplat. Keith W. At the helm <for better or worse> ================================= On Wed, 10 May 2000, Greg Lehey wrote: > 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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