mounting scsi tape drive

[junk]

Well after trying my 3rd tape, it finally works.
Who would have thought I'd get two tapes in a row bad. 

Thanks
Wade

On Mon, 2004-04-05 at 16:03, junk wrote:
> Yes, I have a tape in it.
> 
> [root at cpr]/etc(195): mt status
> mt: /dev/nsa0: Invalid argument
> 
> [root at cpr]/etc(196): camcontrol tur sa0 -v
> Unit is not ready
> (pass2:ahc0:0:5:0): TEST UNIT READY. CDB: 0 0 0 0 0 0
> (pass2:ahc0:0:5:0): ILLEGAL REQUEST asc:80,81
> (pass2:ahc0:0:5:0): Vendor Specific ASC
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, 2004-04-05 at 15:57, Kenneth D. Merry wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 15:53:48 -0500, junk wrote:
> > > I am having a problem mounting a scsi tape drive.
> > > The kernel sees it , but it wont mount.
> > > 
> > > >From dmesg:
> > > 
> > > sa0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 5 lun 0
> > > sa0: <CONNER CTT8000-S 1.17> Removable Sequential Access SCSI-2 device
> > > sa0: 5.000MB/s transfers (5.000MHz, offset 15)
> > > 
> > > When i try to mount it:
> > > 
> > > [root at cpr]/dev(184): mount /dev/sa0 /mnt/tape/
> > > mount: /dev/sa0: Block device required
> > > 
> > > even tried:
> > > [root at cpr]/dev(185): mount /dev/nsa0 /mnt/tape/
> > > mount: /dev/nsa0: Block device required
> > 
> > You can't mount a tape drive like that.  mount only works for disk devices
> > with filesystems.
> > 
> > > [root at cpr]/dev(186): mt rewind
> > > mt: /dev/nsa0: Invalid argument
> > 
> > Do you have a tape in the drive?  What happens when you type 'mt status'?
> > 
> > Try this:
> > 
> > camcontrol tur sa0 -v
> > 
> > Ken
> 
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