From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 25 19:40:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA16338 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 19:40:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA15869 for ; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 19:38:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id TAA28436; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 19:38:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 19:38:45 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Erv Kuhnke cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD & HP C1533A DAT tape In-Reply-To: <3.0.16.19980224115648.34377940@sunmail.dswa.mil> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 24 Feb 1998, Erv Kuhnke wrote: > I recently purchased a Hp C1533A It is set up to interface as a scsi II > and connected to a PCI card made for NCR as a adaptec 2940 look alike..I am > running a FreeBSD Kernel and the system recognized the drive and responds > to tar and MT commands ..But When I try to back up a large file system like > /usr or / > The system works fine for awhile then stalls and a "Blank Check" error occurs > and a error message about failure to respond is reported about two or three > times.. If you run tar -tvf /dev/rst0 against the tape the drive responds > and gives you the files up to the point the previous error occurred and > reports a unexpected EOF tape error... We really need to see the scsi and tar errors generated, their exact text preferably. SCSI system errors should show up in the system log /var/log/messages. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message