SCSI tape drive

Jerry McAllister jerrymc at clunix.cl.msu.edu
Thu Sep 29 06:40:49 PDT 2005


> 
> Dear all,
> 
> I am a newbies to BSD world so bare with me a moment here please.. I
> inherited this freebsd 4.10-RELEASE server and i was told to install a DLT
> 20/40 tape drive to the server.
> 
> So, what i did was;
> 1. shutdown the server
> 2. Install the Adaptec SCSI card into the PCI slot in the server
> 3. Connect the tape drive to the server
> 4. Power up the tape drive then the server
> 
> I though thats all i need to do to get it working but i was wrong..
> 
> I tried;
> red1# mt status
> mt: /dev/nsa0: Device not configured
> AND
> red1# mt -f /dev/rsa0 status
> mt: /dev/rsa0: Device not configured

Did you put a tape in the drive?
If there is no tape in the drive it will report
  "mt: /dev/rsa0: Device not configured"

Other problems can get that response too, of course.

////jerry

> 
> When i did a
> red1# camcontrol devlist -v
> scbus0 on ata0 bus 0:
> <SONY DVD RW DRU-700A VY02> at scbus0 target 1 lun 0 (pass0,cd0)
> < > at scbus0 target -1 lun -1 ()
> scbus1 on ata1 bus 0:
> < > at scbus1 target -1 lun -1 ()
> scbus-1 on xpt0 bus 0:
> < > at scbus-1 target -1 lun -1 (xpt0)
> 
> As i'm not sure what this camcontrol list means, can someone please explain?
> 
> It doesn't seems like the server detect the new tape drive. I google around,
> didn't find anything hopefull.
> 
> Does anyone have any ideas what i did wrong or suggestions that i can try?
> 
> Thanks in advance!
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