Subject: Re: mt -f /dev/nrst0 [anything] -> ENODEV
To: Greywolf <greywolf@starwolf.com>
From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
List: current-users
Date: 11/30/2000 00:24:03
Possibly. I could never get the 4200c to work when I was at Legato. The drive
is likely being seen okay, but I'll be basic 'mount' operations are
failing. Umm, do the usual drill with SCSIDEBUG to try and track down where
from stopen it's failing.
I doubt it's a quirk entry, but anything is possible.
On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Greywolf wrote:
> Greetings;
>
> I have just decided to replace my EXB-8200 with an EXB-4200c (given to me
> by a friend). I'm having some problems, one in particular, which are
> driving me nuts.
>
> First and foremost, any command given to mt -f /dev/nrst0 meets
> resistance with "Operation not supported by device".
>
> Secondly, I put DDS-60 tapes in (DDS1 spec), and it keeps spittin' 'em
> out, and I don't know why. I think this might be a hw error.
>
> I do note the conspicuous absence of a EXB-4200c drive in the st.c
> tables, but the machine (SPARCstation 5/170 [karch sun4m]) seems
> to have no problem in recognizing the drive at boot time (i.e. it doesn't
> say "...not configured" after finding the drive).
>
> Is this just a matter of a missing quirk entry for this thing, or what?
>
>
> --*greywolf;
> --
> *BSD: u_long uptime;
>