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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nexus.coast.net!news.kei.com!hookup!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!brutus.bright.net!infoserv.illinois.net!one.mind.net!news From: laird@mind.net (Alan Laird) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: problems with scsi tape drive. Date: 22 Jun 1995 13:04:44 GMT Organization: InfoStructure Lines: 49 Message-ID: <3sbppc$lj1@one.mind.net> References: <3sabkt$e1b@one.mind.net> <3sb0t8$j7p@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: abraxas.mind.net Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.93.11 In article <3sb0t8$j7p@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>, nuggets@cs.tu-berlin.de says... > >Alan Laird (laird@mind.net) wrote: >: Hello, > >: I am running 2.0-950412-SNAP on a machine with a buslogic 445c vlb >: controller. I am a little unclear as to which device I should use with >: mt and dump to make archives on this scsi dat drive. I have tried using > >: mt /dev/st0 offline > >: makes the tape drive light up but... > >mt -f /dev/nrst0 offline >should work. > >n=no rewind, that means that you can do multiple dumps on the same tape >r=raw device, rst0=character device, st0=block device > >mt -f /dev/nrst0 fsf 3 jumps over 3 backups, so that you can make the 4th. > >Lars. > >-- Well, I couldn't let this one rest so i worked through the night on it and stumbled across something interesting. I did try mt -f /dev/rst0 offline and a number of other things without success. After beating my head on the scsi kernel code trying to figure out why it was not working, I decided to examine my cabling and scsi ids. My hd is on scsi id 0, my cdrom at 1 and my tape drive at 2. When I boot, I see the kernel messages that indicate that it has found the drive and gotten the label. On the offchance that it might help (I would have tried black magic at this point had I known any), I changed my scsi id on the tape drive to 3 and rebooted. This time, the exact same commands produced success. I will try moving the scsi id back to 2 this evening to see if I can duplicate the previous error condition. go figure, Alan Laird laird@mind.net