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Date:      Mon, 16 Oct 2000 13:16:17 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Micke Josefsson <mj@isy.liu.se>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Slightly off topic: Wangtek 5150ES
Message-ID:  <XFMail.001016131617.mj@isy.liu.se>

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I recently found an old Wangtek 5150 ES tape drive in the basement. I can't get
it to work.

It identifies during boot as:

sa0 at ncr0 bus 0 target 2 lun 0
sa0: <WANGTEK 5150ES SCSI FA23 08> Removable Sequential Access SCSI-CCS device 
sa0: 3.300MB/s transfers

And also does mt-commands as expected but tar'ring or dump'ing to it makes it
squirm a bit.

mt status:

lagrange# mt -f /dev/rsa0 stat
Mode      Density              Blocksize      bpi      Compression
Current:  0x10:QIC-150         512 bytes      10000    unsupported
---------available modes---------
0:        0x10:QIC-150         512 bytes      10000    unsupported
1:        0x10:QIC-150         512 bytes      10000    unsupported
2:        0x10:QIC-150         512 bytes      10000    unsupported
3:        0x10:QIC-150         512 bytes      10000    unsupported
---------------------------------
Current Driver State: at rest.
---------------------------------
File Number: 0  Record Number: 0

But:

lagrange# tar cf /dev/rsa0 vinum.4.ps
tar: can't write to /dev/rsa0 : Invalid argument.

(vinum.4.ps is just a plain text file)

Where do I go wrong? I have a 525Meg tape in the drive. Is it possible that the
tape is not recognized? Do I have to use another (150Meg?) tape?

This is not strictly a FreeBSD-question, I know, but it sits on a FreeBSD box
so...?

Help appreciated!

/Micke





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