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Date:      Thu, 02 Dec 1999 15:17:47 -0600
From:      "Eric S. Nooden" <noodene@beloit.edu>
To:        mhughes@logroad.bridge.com (Michael Hughes)
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Mounting a SCSI tape drive
Message-ID:  <4.2.0.58.19991202151404.009dce10@beloit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199912022029.OAA07658@logroad.bridge.com>
References:  <4.2.0.58.19991202135514.009ea320@beloit.edu>

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Mike,

Thanks for replying.  I unfortunately must show my ignorance and ask "What 
is an MX Card?"  Are you referring to the SCCI controller or a card 
physically attached to the tape drive.

Thanks,

Eric

At 02:29 PM 12/2/99 -0600, Michael Hughes wrote:
>Eric,
>   Type changing dup switch 4 to on, on the MX Card.
>
>Eric S. Nooden said in email to me:
> >
> > 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: <EXABYTE EXB-8200 2680> 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



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