DLT "device not configured" errors

Dan Nelson dnelson at allantgroup.com
Wed Jul 28 18:16:13 PDT 2004


In the last episode (Jul 28), up at 3.am said:
> A few months ago I brought up a new server using an Adaptec 2200S RAID
> card, and it's been running fine with a RAID 1 array on channel 0.  Today
> I tried to move the DLT (Quantum 4000) over to this server to make it the
> amanda server, so I plugged it into the controller's external port for
> channel 1.  When I do, neither amanda or mt will see the device, I get:
> 
> mt: /dev/nsa0: Device not configured

This could mean that there's no tape in the drive.  Does "camcontrol
devlist" see the drive?  Also make sure you have the "aacp" device in the
kernel; that allows non-disk devices to pass through the raid controller and
be seen by FreeBSD.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com


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