Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 21:24:39 -0400 (EDT) From: Brian Hechinger <wonko@users.tmok.com> To: dnelson@emsphone.com (Dan Nelson) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DLT tape drive Message-ID: <200004290124.VAA98911@entropy.tmok.com> In-Reply-To: <20000428172207.A12305@dan.emsphone.com> from Dan Nelson at "Apr 28, 2000 5:22: 7 pm"
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Dan Nelson drunkenly mumbled... > In the last episode (Apr 28), Brian Hechinger said: > > 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. i was wondering what that was. wish i had tried it! (tried all the rest) so, that aside, rsa0 is rewinding, nrsa0 is non-rewinding. how do i turn compression on and off (last machine i had a tape drive on was a Solaris machine, and they use device name to control hardware compression) thanks! -brian ps: thanks to Darryl Hoar for the help with outlook. that's exactly what i was looking for. detailed instructions for the Windows impaired. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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