From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 1 7:28:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp13.bellglobal.com (smtp13.bellglobal.com [204.101.251.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEB6014FDD for ; Sat, 1 May 1999 07:28:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jim.chapman@sympatico.ca) Received: from LOCALNAME (ppp97.on.bellglobal.com [206.172.245.97]) by smtp13.bellglobal.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA03896 for ; Sat, 1 May 1999 10:29:33 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <372AC99A.C17@sympatico.ca> Date: Sat, 01 May 1999 10:30:02 +0100 From: Jim Chapman Reply-To: jim.chapman@sympatico.ca X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (Win16; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: ATAPI Tape & Dump Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have been struggling trying to get an ATAPI tape drive to work. I have found that the command tar -cf /dev/rwst0 writes to the tape and the command tar -xf /dev/rwst0 reads the file back and cmp says they are equal. The problem seems to be with dump. The command dump -0af /dev/rwst0 / writes to the tape, closes the drive, rewinds the tape and then tries to send a command to the drive. The man page for wst says that closing the drive will rewind the tape and unmount the drive. Is this a problem with dump or is there something I need to do? Thanks, Jim Chapman To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message