From owner-freebsd-scsi Fri Aug 24 12:16:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from smtp010.mail.yahoo.com (smtp010.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.173.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 81C5937B403 for ; Fri, 24 Aug 2001 12:16:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kc5vdj@yahoo.com) Received: from mkc-65-28-47-209.kc.rr.com (HELO yahoo.com) (65.28.47.209) by smtp.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 24 Aug 2001 19:16:43 -0000 X-Apparently-From: Message-ID: <3B86A81A.608@yahoo.com> Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 14:16:42 -0500 From: Jim Bryant Reply-To: kc5vdj@yahoo.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010726 Netscape6/6.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: mjacob@feral.com Cc: scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tape testers wanted for freebsd-current References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Matthew Jacob wrote: > I've made some changes which cleared up problems with EOM handling and > correctly doing things with QIC. I hope. I have done a lot of testing, but > this is an area which, sad to say, can take a lot to get right and it's easy > to miss things. > > I've done several passes of my tape pattern tester for: > > TANDBERG SLR5 4/8GB > ARCHIVE Python 29279-XXX > DEC TLZ09 > EXABYTE 8500S > EXABYTE 8505XL > HP DDS3 4mm > DEC DLT4000 > QIC-150 > > and I did spanned tape backups and restores and compares for the TANDBERG and > the ARCHIVE. I also did a couple of runs using an eot model of 1 even for > variable drives like the DDS3 4mm. > > In the process of all this testing I killed my DLT4000, killed one Exabyte > 8505 and had to buy on EBay a couple of more drives. I think at this point I'd > like some of the actual users of tape stuff in FreeBSD to help out and see if > things work for them or not. > > If you all would be so kind- could you fetch > > http://people.freebsd.org/~mjacob/scsi_sa.c > > and give it a shot? I'll be away until next wednesday (I have to go to > Minneapolis on a business trip)- and can't easily check email while I'm away- > but I really would like feedback- thanks! Just grabbed it. I'll integrate it after tonight's cvsup [no sense cvsupping in the middle of the day, just breaks things when I do that]... Hopefully it solves the problems I've been seeing with dump. Thanks, Matt! jim -- ET has one helluva sense of humor! He's always anal-probing right-wing schizos! _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message