Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 16:52:25 +0100 From: Jim Chapman <jim.chapman@sympatico.ca> To: freebsd-newbies@Freebsd.org Subject: ATAPI Tapes Message-ID: <37288039.1975@sympatico.ca>
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I installed release 3.1 from the Walnut Creek CD. I have a Seagate IDE/ATAPI tape drive. It is configured correctly (I believe) but I can't use it. My questions are Do I need to initialize the device or the tape before I use it. Mount is only for block devices. The wst man page talks about modes and closing the device. The mt man page gives some info and I can erase and rewind the tape using mt. dump fails after writing the backup, maybe when trying to rewind. dd writes a file but gets a an EOD error when trying to read it. tar does the same thing and also gives a message about an invalid tar header. A search of the archives turned up a lot of tape questions but nothing that helped. I would appreciate it if someone could reply who has actually got one of these devices to work. I am getting very frustrated. I assume there is some simple thing I have missed as I am new to Unix. Thanks, Jim Chapman To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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