From owner-freebsd-scsi Wed Jul 2 12:29:17 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA21245 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Wed, 2 Jul 1997 12:29:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pluto.plutotech.com (root@[206.168.67.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA21236 for ; Wed, 2 Jul 1997 12:29:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from narnia.plutotech.com (narnia.plutotech.com [206.168.67.130]) by pluto.plutotech.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA21948; Wed, 2 Jul 1997 13:28:46 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199707021928.NAA21948@pluto.plutotech.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0beta 12/23/96 To: Keith Mitchell cc: gibbs@plutotech.com (Justin T. Gibbs), scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Archive Viper and 3940UW (bad Drive?) In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 02 Jul 1997 13:41:04 EDT." <199707021741.NAA00740@weenix.guru.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 02 Jul 1997 14:26:25 -0600 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >In article you >wrote: >> >Lately I have been having trouble getting my tape drive to work at all. >> >I get BUS resets everytime I try to access the drive. > >> Can you try this patch??? > >I still get the errors. They appear to wait a little longer. I mean after >trying to access the drive, the LED from the SCSI controller goes on and >stays lit (solid) for about 10 seconds before reporting the errors. Before >they were pretty much instantaneous. Try going through all of the actions that are performed in st_close and increase the timeout. I've heard of the prevent causing problems which was why I bumped up the timeout value, but it could also be the writing of the filemarks that is causing your problems. >-- >Keith Mitchell Head Administrator: acm.vt.edu >Email: kmitch@weenix.guru.org PGP key available upon request >http://weenix.guru.org/~kmitch > Address and URL (c) 1997 Keith Mitchell - All Rights Reserved > Unauthorized use or duplication prohibited -- Justin T. Gibbs =========================================== FreeBSD: Turning PCs into workstations ===========================================