From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 9 21:42:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA09221 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 9 Aug 1998 21:42:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA09204 for ; Sun, 9 Aug 1998 21:41:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id OAA09005; Mon, 10 Aug 1998 14:11:25 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id OAA15098; Mon, 10 Aug 1998 14:11:24 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19980810141123.H11095@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 14:11:23 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Chuck Robey , FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: WangDat 3100 SCSI tape References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Chuck Robey on Sun, Aug 09, 1998 at 10:53:16PM -0400 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sunday, 9 August 1998 at 22:53:16 -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: > I have the unit in the subject line, and I'm trying to get it working. > Does anyone know if it has a preference for a particular density and > blocksize? Not that I know of. > Also, using mt, how does one go about formatting a tape? You don't. > So far, in experimenting (using mt and tar) I've been completely > unsuccessful. I've been using /dev/rst0ctl.0 to set defaults, but > nothings working yet. Appreciate any help ... I have no idea where this > guy came from, so I can't go back to the vendor. What's the problem? You don't need to format the tape, just tar to it. What happens when you do that? Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message