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Date:      Fri, 12 Jun 1998 02:33:42 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        "Dave C." <hysterx@interaccess.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: scsi tape problems..aha0
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980612023307.11999P-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <357DEC0B.CA9289CF@interaccess.com>

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On Tue, 9 Jun 1998, Dave C. wrote:

> hello,
> 
>  I know that this is not totally in all ways freeBSD's doing but as I am
> new to most of the UNIX world I would like to
> see if you have any more expertise than I in this matter. I have an
> adaptec 1542cf SCSI adapter that I installed and configured today. The
> only thing on the adapter is an older mountain 4mm DAT(identified as
> WANG DAT).
> I configured the kernel with aha0 and port 0x234 and the rest left
> default as it was in the kernel. Upon config, make , install and reboot
> the SCSI adapter seems to get initilised fine .. Dmesg prints this
> message:
> 
> aha0 at 0x234-0x237 irq 11 drq 7 on isa
> aha0 waiting for scsi devices to settle
> 
> and the tape drive gets started with the following message which also
> seems normal:
> 
> (aha0:6:0): "WangDAT Model 3100 02.2" type 1 removable SCSI 2
> st0(aha0:6:0): Sequential-Access density code 0x13,  drive empty
> 
> well the drive isn't empty though. but other than that no errors occur
> untill I try to do anything with the
> drive. I try any command ..mt tar newfs..etc. and the device times out
> giving me the following message:
> 
> st0(aha0:6:0): timed out
> st0(aha0:6:0): timed out  AGAIN

Check termination.


Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major


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