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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!swing.iinet.net.au!news.uoregon.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!not-for-mail From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: SCSI Tape drive problems. Date: 31 Oct 1995 00:02:05 +0100 Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden. Lines: 33 Message-ID: <473lhd$8a2@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <46s8b5$mrq@hermes.acs.unt.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: uriah.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Mike Wilson <wilsonm@spartan.hsc.unt.edu> wrote: >(aha0:0:0): "CONNER CTMS 3200 7.00" type 1 removable SCSI 2 >st0(aha0:0:0): Sequential-Access density code 0x29, 512-byte blocks, >write-enabled > >Can anyone tell me if FreeBSD 2.0.5 supports this drive. If so is there What other evidence than the above message do you need? :) >something other than dump I can use to test it with? Any unix command. cat, dd, tar, cpio, dump, basically everything else by using the shell redirection. Perhaps you want to try asking ``mt status''. Don't be confused, mt(1) won't know anything about density code 0x29. Then try dumping some nulls on the tape by ``dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rst0 count=100''. This should put 50 Kbytes of nulls on it, and rewind the tape. Then read it back with ``cat /dev/rst0 | od -x''. You should only get three lines of output: 0000000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 * 0144000 -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)