Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 10:16:48 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: comm/JT <comm@rwx.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: REPOST: TAR and SCSI Tape Drive Troubles. Message-ID: <20041222161648.GA36639@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20041222160816.9891AE028@cmlapp400.van.ca.siteprotect.com> References: <20041222160816.9891AE028@cmlapp400.van.ca.siteprotect.com>
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In the last episode (Dec 22), comm/JT said: > 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. The SCSI subsystem thinks the device has been disconnected; devfs can't put the /dev/ node back until you rescan the SCSI bus. Try running "camcontrol rescan all". -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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