From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 20 14:15:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sasami.jurai.net (sasami.jurai.net [64.0.106.45]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3792837B406; Wed, 20 Jun 2001 14:15:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from winter@jurai.net) Received: from localhost (winter@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA44223; Wed, 20 Jun 2001 17:14:59 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 17:14:58 -0400 (EDT) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" To: Kenneth Karoliussen Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ch driver/chio problem In-Reply-To: <992596094.3b29d07e326a7@epost.hit.no> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, Kenneth Karoliussen wrote: ... > drive 0: > drive 1: > > # chio move drive 0 slot 0 > chio: /dev/ch0: CHIOMOVE: Invalid argument > > Performing this operation from slot [x] to drive [x] seem to work perfectly, but > the not the other way. > > We've been looking around for other with the same problem, without any > luck. If you have any experience which such device(s), I hope you may > enlighten us what the problem acutally is. Try telling the drive to eject the tape ('mt offline'); AFAIK the robot can't do anything with a unit that doesn't have the 'ACCESS' attribute set. -- | Matthew N. Dodd | '78 Datsun 280Z | '75 Volvo 164E | FreeBSD/NetBSD | | winter@jurai.net | 2 x '84 Volvo 245DL | ix86,sparc,pmax | | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | For Great Justice! | ISO8802.5 4ever | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message