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Date:      Wed, 22 Dec 2004 08:13:40 -0800
From:      "comm/JT" <comm@rwx.ca>
To:        <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   REPOST: TAR and SCSI Tape Drive Troubles.
Message-ID:  <20041222160816.9891AE028@cmlapp400.van.ca.siteprotect.com>

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Hello,

I never had a subject in my last post, so I am posting this again, sorry.

I have recently installed a SCSI tape drive in my FBSD box:

Waiting 15 seconds for SCSI devices to settle
sa0 at sym0 bus 0 target 6 lun 0
sa0: <SEAGATE DAT    04106-XXX 743B> Removable Sequential Access SCSI-2
device 
sa0: 10.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 15)

I then tried to actually put some files on the tape using tar and had the
following message in 'demsg':

Dec 21 10:38:11 taco kernel: (sa0:sym0:0:6:0): lost device
Dec 21 10:38:11 taco kernel: (sa0:sym0:0:6:0): failed to write terminating
filemark(s)
Dec 21 10:38:12 taco kernel: (sa0:sym0:0:6:0): tape is now frozen- use an
OFFLINE, REWIND or MTEOM command to clear this state.
Dec 21 10:38:12 taco kernel: (sa0:sym0:0:6:0): removing device entry

I have no clue how to add the device entry again, I tried rebooting the box.
I even tried some commands with 'devfs'... and got no where.

Any ideas...

Thanks.

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-JT



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