From owner-freebsd-scsi Sun Nov 21 21:58:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 850451517C for ; Sun, 21 Nov 1999 21:57:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from beppo.feral.com (beppo [192.67.166.79]) by feral.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA02192; Sun, 21 Nov 1999 21:58:24 -0800 Date: Sun, 21 Nov 1999 21:58:24 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: Randy Bush Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DLT2000 must have tape at boot to write In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > 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..) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message