Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 13:52:38 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Kenneth Ingham <ingham@i-pi.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Missing tape drive? Message-ID: <20001027135238.D51550@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20001026221013.A18818@Socrates.i-pi.com>; from ingham@i-pi.com on Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 10:10:13PM -0600 References: <20001026155132.H17432@Socrates.i-pi.com> <20001026172839.A15066@dan.emsphone.com> <20001026214722.A18729@Socrates.i-pi.com> <20001027131955.C51550@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20001026221013.A18818@Socrates.i-pi.com>
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On Thursday, 26 October 2000 at 22:10:13 -0600, Kenneth Ingham wrote: > On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 01:19:55PM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: >>>> Do you have a tape in the drive? The kernel returns ENXIO for both >>>> "there is no tape drive" and "there is no tape". >>> >>> Yes, there was a tape in the drive. Oddly, it would get ejected after >>> the mt status. >> >> An audio tape, possibly? I'd guess that the drive didn't like it, >> anyway. > > Nope, a brand-new data-grade tape. We unwrapped it and put it in the > drive (intending on doing a backup...). OK, let's recapitulate: do you know that the drive has worked elsewhere? What happens if, instead of 'mt status', you do an 'mt rewind'? It's just barely possible that the drive is not returning a good status because the tape has never been written, though I can't reproduce this behaviour on my machine. Also, let's see the relevant dmesg output again. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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