From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Nov 18 13:37:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A522D37B479 for ; Sat, 18 Nov 2000 13:37:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from zeppo.feral.com (IDENT:mjacob@zeppo [192.67.166.71]) by feral.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA19391; Sat, 18 Nov 2000 13:37:17 -0800 Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 13:37:14 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: void Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "device not configured" from sa driver In-Reply-To: <20001118213224.A22036@firedrake.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Try an mt -f /dev/nrsa0 status and mt -f /dev/nrsa1 status The ctl node specifically makes no access to the device. If there is indeed a tape inserted, build a CAMDEBUG kernel, boot it, and do camcontrol debug -Ic b:t:l (b = bus, t = target, l = lun) and then do the 'mt status' dance as above and send to scsi@freebsd.org (the appropriate list- not hackers). I'm the tape driver maintainer, but I'll be out of town this next week. > I have set up a tape drive, correctly I believe, yet I keep getting > "device not configured" errors from it. See: > > http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=2849646+2851949+/usr/local/www/db/text/2000/freebsd-questions/20001029.freebsd-questions > > Some have said that this error indicates no tapes in the drive, but the > drive does have tapes in it. What else could it indicate? I tried > reading the source, but I found it beyond me. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message