From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 21 16:29:44 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CC9E37B401 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 16:29:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from molson.wixb.com (molson.wixb.com [67.36.82.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EEDA43E75 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 16:29:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lists@xpec.com) Received: from coors.xpec.com (coors.wixb.com [10.135.144.5]) by molson.wixb.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g9LNTaN1013936; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 18:29:36 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <5.2.0.5.2.20021021182606.00b2ae40@molson.wixb.com> Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 18:29:33 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: "J.D. Bronson" Subject: scsi external tape Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am running 4.7 and using an adaptec 2940 PCI card. I have a HP external scsi tape drive. While this all works, I noticed the following: Unless the tape drive is connected to the scsi bus and TURNED on, when I boot the machine it will not allow me to later use any tape commands. It returns "device not configured". Is this normal? I thought that I would be able to simply connect up the tape drive and power it up whenever I wanted and leave it off and disconnected when not in use. What am i missing? -- J.D. Bronson Aurora Health Care // Information Systems // Milwaukee, WI USA Office: 414.978.8282 // Fax: 414.328.8282 // Pager: 414.603.8282 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message