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Date:      Fri, 1 Sep 2000 13:01:19 -0700
From:      <murphree1@ispchannel.com>
To:        echriste@ssesco.com
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Problems with tape drive
Message-ID:  <20000901200236.MRQX7586.smtp1a@[10.1.2.23]>

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>I don't know if I should post this here or on the scsi list, but I'm sure 
>I'll be told if I'm wrong.  I've been having a problem with my tape drive 
>and I have a solution, I just don't know if it's the correct solution.  I'm 
>running 4.1 stable and have a drive that gets recognized as a Tandberg TDC 
>3800 (see dmesg output that follows) with DC6525 tapes.  I have scsi and sa 
>in the kernel and everything set up correctly, but whenever I try to do 
>anything with the tape drive I get an error.
>
>$ sudo mt status
>mt: /dev/nsa0: Invalid argument
>(sa0:sym0:0:5:0): unable to set fixed blocksize to 1024

Reported this a few weeks ago and it's still broken.
Use 'mt -f /dev/nrsa0 status' and it will work. The
'dev/nsa0' comes from a define in mtio.h 
It used to work...

Mike





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