From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Sep 9 20: 1:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from phl.iago.org (phl.iago.org [207.8.219.216]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7639437B406 for ; Sun, 9 Sep 2001 20:01:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ra.iago.org.iago.org (ra.iago.org [192.148.252.45]) by phl.iago.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8F404E for ; Sun, 9 Sep 2001 23:01:20 -0400 (EDT) To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: trouble with Seagate ATAPI tape under stable From: Justin Sheehy Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2001 22:58:02 -0400 Message-ID: Lines: 38 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) XEmacs/21.4 (Academic Rigor) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I did a clean install of 4.3 and upgraded it to stable today. Most things seem fine, but I cannot get the EIDE tape drive to work. The device appears as follows at boot time: ast0: TAPE at ata0-slave using PIO4 mt status seems okay: # mt -f /dev/nrast0 status 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 However, if I try any operation to write to the tape (dd, tar, whatever) it fails with an I/O error and the following is sent to syslog: ast0: WRITE - ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=30 ascq=00 error=00 In some cases I also see this: ast0: READ - BLANK CHECK asc=00 ascq=05 error=00 In no case am I able to write labels or other data to tapes. Am I missing something obvious, is this a known issue in stable, or should I submit a bug? Thanks. -Justin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message