From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 2 12: 5:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from beloit.edu (beloit.edu [144.89.40.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70C2E14E84 for ; Thu, 2 Dec 1999 12:05:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from noodene@beloit.edu) Received: from deepthought ([144.89.40.89]) by beloit.edu (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id NAA21430 for ; Thu, 2 Dec 1999 13:58:13 -0600 Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.19991202135514.009ea320@beloit.edu> X-Sender: noodene@beloit.edu X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.58 Date: Thu, 02 Dec 1999 14:13:05 -0600 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Eric S. Nooden" Subject: Mounting a SCSI tape drive Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am running into some problems trying to mount a tape drive. When I run: mt -f /dev/nrsa0 rewind (or any command i.e. status) I get the following error message: (sa0:ahc0:0:4:0): MODE SENSE(06). CDB: 1a 0 0 0 c 0 (sa0:ahc0:0:4:0): ILLEGAL REQUEST ***I did notice that when the command ran, the light on the tape drive did flash. The file /var/log/messages reports the following about sa0: sa0: at ahc0 bus 0 target 4 lun 0 sa0: Removable Sequential Access SCSI-CCS device sa0: 3.300MB/s transfers Any help in mounting this beast and get backups done would be appreciated. Thank you in advance, Eric Nooden noodene@beloit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message