Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 16:31:53 -0500 (CDT) From: John Preisler <john@vapornet.net> To: "System Admin." <pe@student.lssu.edu> Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: re: tape drive problem Message-ID: <14164.20087.677294.604963@habanero.chili-pepper.net>
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Its a tape drive, not a disk drive. read and write from the raw block device. /dev/rsa0, or /dev/nrsa0 if you dont want it to rewind after each operation. Medium not present is computer-ese for "there is no tape in this tape drive." Also, many utilities you might wish to use support the $TAPE environment variable. export TAPE=/dev/nrsa0 or setenv TAPE /dev/nrsa0 if you C shell. If you have multiple unix machines you can dump them all to one tape on one host by using amanda in the ports collection. -j Hello, I just installed FreeBSD/Alpha on AlphaServer 400 4/233 and it works great! I love it!. But I have a small problem that my DDS2 tape backup doesn't work. I look in /var/dmesg.today and found out that my tape device is sa0: sa0 at ncr0 bus 0 target 5 lun 0 sa0: <DEC TLZ09 (C)DEC 0167> Removable Sequential Access SCSI-2 device sa0: 10.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 8) but when I use mt -f /dev/sa0 status it tells me that the device is not configure. So, I did this: # ./MAKEDEV sa0 and it's still gave me the same error. When I look futher in the log file I saw this error message: (sa0:ncr0:0:5:0): Medium not present (sa0:ncr0:0:5:0): REWIND. CDB: 1 0 0 0 0 0 (sa0:ncr0:0:5:0): NOT READY asc:3a,0 (sa0:ncr0:0:5:0): Medium not present This error occur everytime when I run /stand/sysinstall command. So, how can I fix this ploblem? I want to be able to backup my system specially when I just finish setting up my intranet secure webserver on it. =) Thank ou for the help! TIA pe' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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