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Date:      Fri, 27 Oct 2000 13:19:55 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Kenneth Ingham <ingham@i-pi.com>
Cc:        Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Missing tape drive?
Message-ID:  <20001027131955.C51550@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <20001026214722.A18729@Socrates.i-pi.com>; from ingham@i-pi.com on Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 09:47:23PM -0600
References:  <20001026155132.H17432@Socrates.i-pi.com> <20001026172839.A15066@dan.emsphone.com> <20001026214722.A18729@Socrates.i-pi.com>

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On Thursday, 26 October 2000 at 21:47:23 -0600, Kenneth Ingham wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 05:28:40PM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote:
>> In the last episode (Oct 26), Kenneth Ingham said:
>>> I have an HP SCSI DAT tape (that works fine on other FreeBSD machines).
>>> However, on one, when I try to access it, I get the message:
>>> bash-2.04# mt status
>>> mt: /dev/nrsa0: Device not configured
>>
>> Do you have a tape in the drive?  The kernel returns ENXIO for both
>> "there is no tape drive" and "there is no tape".
>
> Yes, there was a tape in the drive.  Oddly, it would get ejected after
> the mt status.

An audio tape, possibly?  I'd guess that the drive didn't like it,
anyway.

Greg
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