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Date:      Fri, 31 Aug 2001 11:56:05 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
Cc:        scsi@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: tape testers wanted for freebsd-current
Message-ID:  <20010831115605.H57354@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0108291327010.34703-100000@beppo>; from mjacob@feral.com on Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 01:27:09PM -0700
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0108240011400.99930-100000@beppo> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0108291327010.34703-100000@beppo>

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On Wednesday, 29 August 2001 at 13:27:09 -0700, Matt Jacob wrote:
>
> 'ullo? anyone 'ome?

Sorry, I seem to have missed the first posting.  

All my tapes are on an ancient (nearly 1 year old) -CURRENT, and I
don't want to upgrade the system at the moment.  About the only tape
not in that list and not in the main machine is an AIWA DDS-2 drive; I
can get a second one of them and try it on a new machine if you think
it's liable to be of significant use.

Greg

> On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Matthew Jacob wrote:
>
>>
>> I've made some changes which cleared up problems with EOM handling and
>> correctly doing things with QIC. I hope. I have done a lot of testing, but
>> this is an area which, sad to say, can take a lot to get right and it's easy
>> to miss things.
>>
>> I've done several passes of my tape pattern tester for:
>>
>> TANDBERG SLR5 4/8GB
>> ARCHIVE Python 29279-XXX
>> DEC TLZ09
>> EXABYTE 8500S
>> EXABYTE 8505XL
>> HP DDS3 4mm
>> DEC DLT4000
>> QIC-150
>>
>> and I did spanned tape backups and restores and compares for the TANDBERG and
>> the ARCHIVE. I also did a couple of runs using an eot model of 1 even for
>> variable drives like the DDS3 4mm.
>>
>> In the process of all this testing I killed my DLT4000, killed one Exabyte
>> 8505 and had to buy on EBay a couple of more drives. I think at this point I'd
>> like some of the actual users of tape stuff in FreeBSD to help out and see if
>> things work for them or not.
>>
>> If you all would be so kind- could you fetch
>>
>> 	http://people.freebsd.org/~mjacob/scsi_sa.c
>>
>> and give it a shot? I'll be away until next wednesday (I have to go to
>> Minneapolis on a business trip)- and can't easily check email while I'm away-
>> but I really would like feedback- thanks!

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