Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1998 14:47:38 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Sarwat Husain <srh@syseca-us.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Please Help ! Message-ID: <19980806144738.F9468@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <F12F70B8A3FBD111BBC400104B245E1B137BED@exchange-la.syseca-us.com>; from Husain, Sarwat on Wed, Aug 05, 1998 at 09:58:56AM -0700 References: <F12F70B8A3FBD111BBC400104B245E1B137BED@exchange-la.syseca-us.com>
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On Wednesday, 5 August 1998 at 9:58:56 -0700, Husain, Sarwat wrote:
> Hi,
> I recently purchased the 4-CD version of FreeBSD 2.2.6 from Walnut Creek
> CD-ROM. It installs great and everything but my Backup Tape drive
> doesn't work. I have posted the question on comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc a
> couple of times but couldn't get an answer, you guys are my last hope.
> OK the tape drive is actually CTT8000 Internal IDE Minicartridge drive
> by "Seagate" not CONNER with 4GB native and 8GB compressed capability.
> It is connected to the primary IDE controller along with the CD-ROM
> (both on the IDE port via 1 cable). I have SCSI hard drives. When the
> machine boots up it actually sees the drive and echos:
> wdc0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7 irq 14on isa
> wdc0: unit 0(atapi): <FX820s/g01>, removeable, intr,dma,iordis
> wdc0: unit 1(atapi):<CONNER CTT8000-A/2.0.7>, removeble, accel, iordis
> wdc0: ATAPI streaming tapes not supported yet
> OK so you see it recognizes the drive as a CONNER drive not Seagate
> surprisingly with the right model # and at the end it says that it is
> not supported yet, what does that mean ? please don't tell me that I
> cannot use it with FreeBSD.
Sorry, that's what it means at the moment. People are working on it,
and it may become available quite soon.
> The second problem is with the new Quantum Atlas II 4.5 GB SCSI-3 drive
> that I'm using with an 80 to 68 pins adapter. I have the FreeBSD OS on a
> 2.1 GB drive and I mount the 4.5GB on /u02 after creating a file system
> (single slice) for the full capacity of the drive. Then when I do a cd
> /u02 it says u02 is not a directory, then I went to /stand/sysinstall
> and finally got it to mount it but when I tried to copy /var to /u02 it
> said something like parity write error and bunch of other errors rolled
> off of the screen among which there were several retries. Finally, when
> I looked in the /u02 it seemed like some of the stuff was actually
> copied. Any ideas what's going on ?
Not really. The error messages should be in /var/log/messages. We
need to see them to know what's going on (but only the disk error
messages, please. /var/log/messages can get *very* large). Also,
let's see:
1. The contents of the file /etc/fstab. This one's short.
2. The output of:
dmesg > /tmp/dmesg.out
That's the contents of the file /tmp/dmesg.out after you've run
the command above.
> it works fine under DOS. I doubt I have create small slices of 2GB
> like DOS or do I ?
No.
Greg
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