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Date:      Tue, 25 May 1999 16:51:06 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        Bryce Newall <data@dreamhaven.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Onstream Tape Drive
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.03.9905251649500.13061-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.4.10.9905251600060.86244-100000@ds9.dreamhaven.org>

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On Tue, 25 May 1999, Bryce Newall wrote:

> Greetings!
> 
> I was wondering if anyone has used one of the new Onstream SC-30 or SC-50
> SCSI tape drives with FreeBSD?  We just purchased one for one of our
> systems and installed it.  The kernel recognizes it at bootup:
> 
> sa0 at ahc2 bus 0 target 5 lun 0
> sa0: <OnStream SC-30 1.01> Removable Sequential Access SCSI-2 device
> sa0: 10.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 7)
> 
> However, when I try to back anything up to it, using either tar or dump, I
> get these messages:
> 
> tar: Cannot open /dev/rsa0: Device not configured
> tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

Hm.

>   DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Tue May 25 17:01:35 1999
>   DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch
>   DUMP: Dumping /home/data to /dev/rsa0
>   DUMP: bad sblock magic number
>   DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted.

You can't dump directories, you must dump filesystems.  Say '/dev/da0s1a',
for instance.

> I did make sure the device sa0 existed in /dev; it does.  I even tried
> re-creating it with the MAKEDEV script; same problem.  Support is compiled
> into the kernel, by the way.  Any thoughs or suggestions?

Did you get any system log messages from your attempt with tar?  `Device
not configured' implies the device was not found during boot, yet the
probe message is there.  What version of FreeBSD is this?

Doug White                               
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