From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 21 23:14:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from revolution.3-cities.com (revolution.3-cities.com [204.203.224.155]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C77C014C15 for ; Sat, 21 Aug 1999 23:14:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@revolution.3-cities.com) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by revolution.3-cities.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA27936; Sat, 21 Aug 1999 23:14:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Mark D Smith Message-Id: <199908220614.XAA27936@revolution.3-cities.com> Subject: Re: setting up SCSI-DDS tape backup To: paz@ccstores.com (Jim Pazarena) Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 23:14:27 -0700 (PDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <9908212159.aa02592@dick.ccstores.com> from "Jim Pazarena" at Aug 21, 99 09:59:13 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Try talking to /dev/rsa0 for the rewind on close device and /dev/nrsa0 for the no rewind on close device. so, if you tar or dump/resore to/from /dev/rsa0, the tape will be rewound when the operation is completed. Using /dev/nrsa0, the tape will stay at it's last position. /dev/nrsa0 is good for putting multiple archives on the same tape. Mark > > I have a DDS-III drive in my FreeBSD 3.2 box. During boot up, the > kernel recognizes the drive, refers to it as sa0, and boots as expected. > > But I don't have a "/dev/sa0" and don't know how to access my tape > unit. > > What am I missing? > > -- > Jim Pazarena mailto:paz@ccstores.com > http://www.qcislands.net/paz > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- ========================================================================= For sale: 1978 VW Van, Champaign Edition, 13,000 miles on new engine with fuel injection. $2500 To see pictures and contact information go to http://www.3-cities.com/~msmith/vw.html UNIX IS user friendly, it's just very choosy about who it calls a friend! ========================================================================= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message