From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 25 16:51:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1509B14C21 for ; Tue, 25 May 1999 16:51:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA12959; Tue, 25 May 1999 16:51:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 16:51:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Bryce Newall Cc: FreeBSD Questions List Subject: Re: Onstream Tape Drive In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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: 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 Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message