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Date:      Wed, 17 Jan 2001 19:02:28 +0300
From:      Odhiambo Washington <wash@iconnect.co.ke>
To:        Glen Foster <gfoster@gfoster.com>
Cc:        FBSD-Q <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Help with Tape Drive
Message-ID:  <20010117190228.B19128@poeza.iconnect.co.ke>
In-Reply-To: <14949.49357.770431.84542@rr.gfoster.com>;  from "Glen Foster" on Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 10:57:01AM -0500
References:  <20010117181924.A18085@poeza.iconnect.co.ke> <14949.49357.770431.84542@rr.gfoster.com>

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* Glen Foster <gfoster@gfoster.com> [20010117 18:58]: writing on the subject 'Help with Tape Drive'
Glen> You will get "not configured" if there is no tape in the drive.

BTW in 3.5 my tape used to be rsa0 - I wonder why it is now nsa0??

Glen> 
Glen> Courvette writes:
Glen>  > Hello Pals,
Glen>  > Someone can help me with this one. After an upgrade to 4.2-STABLE from
Glen>  > 3.5-STABLE I am unable to use my tape drive -and consequently can't do
Glen>  > backups - we all know how serious that is....
Glen>  > 
Glen>  > I am in a dilemna::
Glen>  > 
Glen>  > wash:~$ mt status
Glen>  > mt: /dev/nsa0: Device not configured
Glen>  > 
Glen>  > +++++
Glen>  > wash:~$ cd /dev/
Glen>  > wash:/dev$ ls -al *sa0
Glen>  > crw-rw----  4 root  operator   14,   2 Jan 17 18:10 ersa0
Glen>  > crw-rw----  4 root  operator   14,   2 Jan 17 18:10 esa0
Glen>  > crw-rw----  4 root  operator   14,   1 Jan 17 18:10 nrsa0
Glen>  > crw-rw----  4 root  operator   14,   1 Jan 17 18:10 nsa0
Glen>  > crw-rw----  4 root  operator   14,   0 Jan 17 18:10 rsa0
Glen>  > crw-rw----  4 root  operator   14,   0 Jan 17 18:10 sa0
Glen>  > wash:/dev$
Glen>  > 
Glen>  > 
Glen>  > -Wash
Glen>  > 
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-Wash

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