From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 16 10:58:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ra.upan.org (ra.upan.org [204.107.76.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5A7F37B401 for ; Fri, 16 Feb 2001 10:58:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from ocsinternet.com (localhost.upan.org [127.0.0.1]) by ra.upan.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f1GIxUT08000; Fri, 16 Feb 2001 13:59:34 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mikel@ocsinternet.com) Message-ID: <3A8D7892.578A99F9@ocsinternet.com> Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 13:59:30 -0500 From: Mikel King Organization: OCS Internet X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mitch Vincent Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Compaq DAT tape drive References: <013701c09841$f57b0430$0200000a@windows> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Try this...slap a tape in the drive, then type: tar czp /etc You will know in short order if the drive is functional...;) cheers, mikel Mitch Vincent wrote: > I have an older Compaq Proliant server (I'm not sure of the model exactly) > and I need to read some information off of the tape that in it's tape drive > (as far as I can tell the tape drive is a Compaq DAT 8/12 gig SCSI tape > drive).. I have all the SCSI support enabled in the kernel yet on boot I > can't see anything about the tape drive. Should I ? If so, I'm not, what > might be the problem? It's plugged in and I see it in the BIOS when the > machine boots so I know it's hooked up correctly.. Is there some trick to > getting FreeBSD to see this drive so I can access it? > > If someone could drop me a note directly in addition to the list it would be > greatly appreciated! > > Thanks!! > > -Mitch > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message