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Date:      Sun, 21 Nov 1999 21:58:24 -0800 (PST)
From:      Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
To:        Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Cc:        freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: DLT2000 must have tape at boot to write
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911212156230.7688-100000@beppo.feral.com>
In-Reply-To: <E11pmMb-0000tY-00@rip.psg.com>

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> > it really sounds like broken h/w to me. What do you think?
> 
> hmmmm.  not disagreeing, but am trying to think of all possibilities before
> rmaing the wrong part or buying new.
> 
> what if i have some parameter mistuned on the cmos?
> 
> could it be a p2b-ds motherboard multi-scsi issue with the tape and the
> disks being dumped on the same controller?  
> 
> to kind of test this hypothesis, i just rdumped another (even larger) system
> to this tape drive over 100baseT.  the rdump was successful.
> 

Not disagreeing, but it still sounds like h/w to me. The question is 'which'?
Do you have another SCSI controller to put your drive on? You have a
wide ultra2 mixex with narrow/fast. Seems like asking for trouble
(I'm sure ken/justin will tell me if I'm all wet..)



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