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Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 10:48:04 +1030
From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: Matt Behrens <matt@megaweapon.zigg.com>
Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Archive 150 tape drive on new SCSI card
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On Wed, Jan 14, 1998 at 10:04:11AM -0500, Matt Behrens wrote:
> Hi,
>
> A few days ago I replaced my venerable Seagate ST-01 with a brand-new
> Adaptec 153x (using the aha driver).  The devices scan okay, but my old
> Archive 150 isn't being nice to me anymore.  I got these errors on last
> night's backup, for example:
>
> st0(aha0:3:0): MEDIUM ERROR info:0x7d asc:0,14
> st0(aha0:3:0):  Audio play operation stopped due to error
> st0(aha0:3:0): MEDIUM ERROR info:0x6a asc:0,14
> st0(aha0:3:0):  Audio play operation stopped due to error
>
> And no, I wasn't playing a CD at the time.  I wasn't aware my Archive 150
> could play audio. :)

I don't think it can.

> I know what a medium error is; I can try other tapes.  But the other
> errors seem to suggest something else.

What about the dmesg output?  What does your system think it is?  And
do you really mean Adaptec 153x?  I didn't know there was such a
beast.  How does it compare to the 152x and 154x?

Greg