On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 06:00:51PM +0200, Mats wrote:
> Hello
> I have some trouble with a seagate tapebackup (Seagate STTM20).
> It's an ide type.
> With OpenBSD mt gives the ouput:
> ioctl MTIOCGET: ivalid argument
>
> mt rewind works fine.
> When i try mt status under NetBSD it says:
> SCSI tape drive, residual=0
> ds=3<Mounted>
> er=0
> blocksize: 512 (0, 0, 0, 0)
> density: 0 (0, 0, 0, 0)
> current file number: 0
> current block number: 0
>
> Under NetBSD dump/restore works fine, but not under OpenBSD. The
> bios on the motherboard doesn't find the seagate, it says "not
> detected". I have tried pnp and not pnp in bios without any differents.
>
> My dmesg says:
> st0 at scsibus1 targ 0 lun 0: <Seagate, STT20000A, 8A51> SCSI2 1/sequential
> removable
> st0: drive empty or not ready
> cd0(pciide1:1:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2
> st0(pciide1:1:1): using PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2
Hmm, since you typo'ed the command that doesn't work, debugging might be
difficult. Are you sure you are not trying anything strange, and that
$TAPE is either unset or set to something appropriate?
Joachim
