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From: "Joe Joplin" <joejop@triad.rr.com>
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Subject: Seagate Travan IDE Tape Drive (STT20000A) halts
Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 05:50:21 -0400
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 have a Seagate travan-5 IDE drive running on FreeBSD 4.6.  The drive seems
to be detecting correctly.

ast0: Tape <Seagate STT20000A> at ata0-slave PI04

But after I send a command for the tape e.g. mt -f /dev/nast0 rewind,
dump -0aunf /dev/nast0 /tmp, .. the system hangs after finishing the
command.  I can kill the process with an ABRT or KILL (sometimes I have to
reboot, but that is may be my lack of knowledge).  I used mt -f /dev/nast0
status and got the output below.  This is the only command I can run without
the system stopping.  I have tried to use /dev/ast0, but that does the same
if not worse.

Mode      Density              Blocksize      bpi      Compression
Current:  0x01:X3.22-1983      512 bytes      800      none
---------available modes---------
0:        default              variable       0        none
1:        default              variable       0        none
2:        default              variable       0        none
3:        default              variable       0        none
---------------------------------
File Number: 0            Record Number: 0            Residual Count 0


I am trying to use this tape drive with either dump or tar for backups.  I
would really appreciate some help.  I am stuck.  I can't seem to find any
info.

TIA,

Joe



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