From owner-freebsd-scsi Wed Mar 1 11: 9:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (osmium.gn.iaf.nl [193.67.144.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A89C637B9D8; Wed, 1 Mar 2000 11:09:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wilko@yedi.iaf.nl) Received: from yedi.iaf.nl (uucp@localhost) by uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (8.9.2/8.9.2) with UUCP id UAA07479; Wed, 1 Mar 2000 20:06:25 +0100 (MET) Received: (from wilko@localhost) by yedi.iaf.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA01130; Wed, 1 Mar 2000 19:37:12 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wilko) Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 19:37:12 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte To: "Matthew N. Dodd" Cc: Mike Smith , scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: chio trap with not-ready changer Message-ID: <20000301193712.D787@yedi.iaf.nl> References: <200003010502.VAA02846@mass.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from winter@jurai.net on Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 01:06:29AM -0500 X-OS: FreeBSD yedi.iaf.nl 3.4-STABLE FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 01:06:29AM -0500, Matthew N. Dodd wrote: > On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, Mike Smith wrote: > > Ok, after some interesting side trips I'm happily up and talking to > > our new (well, new-old) SpectraLogic STL-8000. There's only one catch > > so far - if the unit is still initialising itself when the 'ch' driver > > tries to talk to it, the latter fails in a messy fashion. It's easy > > enough to work around this by increasing the SCSI delay, but if you > > have 40 tapes in the unit and it's busy reading the barcodes off them > > all, this can be a loooong wait. 8) > > I think this is an artifact of the changer hardware being really stupid. > > I've got 2 different HP robots and a StorageWorks datawheel 8mm that I > have to let settle before I bring up the box they are attached to. StorageWorks datawheel? That would be ?? I'm not aware we ever supplied anything but DAT and DLT loaders from DEC/Compaq... -- Wilko Bulte Arnhem, The Netherlands http://www.tcja.nl The FreeBSD Project: http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message