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Date:      Fri, 28 Apr 2000 17:22:07 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
To:        wonko@entropy.tmok.com
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: DLT tape drive
Message-ID:  <20000428172207.A12305@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <200004282146.RAA97558@entropy.tmok.com>; from "Brian Hechinger" on Fri Apr 28 17:46:06 GMT 2000
References:  <200004282146.RAA97558@entropy.tmok.com>

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In the last episode (Apr 28), Brian Hechinger said:
> quick question.  just installed a DLT tape drive on our FreeBSD-3.4
> system, and i can't get mt to see it.  however, i don't even know
> what device name i should be looking for.
> 
> mt status (defaults to /dev/nrsa0) reports device not configured. 
> not sure what to do!
> 
> dmesg shows that the device is seen at bootup.
> 
> sa0 at ahc1 bus 0 target 5 lun 0
> sa0: <Quantum DLT4000 D473> Removable Sequential Access SCSI-2 device 
> sa0: 10.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 15)

It'll say "device not configured" if there is no tape in the drive.  If
you want to get status even the the drive is empty, try the
/dev/rsa0.ctl device.
 
> ps: anyone know how to configure Outlook 2000/Exchange to filter mail from
> this list and put it into folders?  i just can't seem to get it to work.
> although i don't know squat about anything that isn't UNIX.

If you can filter on arbitrary headers, use "Sender:
owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG".
 
-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@emsphone.com


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