From owner-freebsd-scsi Thu Aug 30 19:29:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A55DD37B40B for ; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 19:29:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 82E876ACE7; Fri, 31 Aug 2001 11:56:05 +0930 (CST) Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 11:56:05 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Matthew Jacob Cc: scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tape testers wanted for freebsd-current Message-ID: <20010831115605.H57354@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from mjacob@feral.com on Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 01:27:09PM -0700 Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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! -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message