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Date:      Tue, 25 May 1999 16:02:33 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Bryce Newall <data@dreamhaven.net>
To:        FreeBSD Questions List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Onstream Tape Drive
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.4.10.9905251600060.86244-100000@ds9.dreamhaven.org>

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Greetings!

I was wondering if anyone has used one of the new Onstream SC-30 or SC-50
SCSI tape drives with FreeBSD?  We just purchased one for one of our
systems and installed it.  The kernel recognizes it at bootup:

sa0 at ahc2 bus 0 target 5 lun 0
sa0: <OnStream SC-30 1.01> Removable Sequential Access SCSI-2 device
sa0: 10.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 7)

However, when I try to back anything up to it, using either tar or dump, I
get these messages:

tar: Cannot open /dev/rsa0: Device not configured
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

  DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Tue May 25 17:01:35 1999
  DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch
  DUMP: Dumping /home/data to /dev/rsa0
  DUMP: bad sblock magic number
  DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted.

I did make sure the device sa0 existed in /dev; it does.  I even tried
re-creating it with the MAKEDEV script; same problem.  Support is compiled
into the kernel, by the way.  Any thoughs or suggestions?

Thanks!

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