From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 5 17:18:10 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA19077 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 5 Oct 1997 17:18:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from falcon.pacit.tas.gov.au (falcon.pacit.tas.gov.au [147.109.1.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA19061 for ; Sun, 5 Oct 1997 17:18:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Carey.Nairn@ccd.tas.gov.au) Received: from carey.pacit.tas.gov.au (carey.pacit.tas.gov.AU [147.109.2.69]) by falcon.pacit.tas.gov.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA13056 for ; Mon, 6 Oct 1997 11:16:43 +1100 (EST) Message-Id: <3.0.32.19971006111437.00aface4@falcon.pacit.tas.gov.au> X-Sender: cpn@falcon.pacit.tas.gov.au X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Mon, 06 Oct 1997 11:14:37 +1100 To: questions@freebsd.org From: Carey Nairn Subject: problem restoring from tape after upgrade Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi guys, after upgrading a system from 2.1.6 to 2.2.2 last weekend, we got the following errors while attempting to restore data from tape: st0(ahc0:1:0): parity error during Data-In phase. st0(ahc0:1:0): parity error during Data-In phase. st0(ahc0:1:0): ABORTED COMMAND asc:4b,0 Data phase error st0(ahc0:1:0): BLANK CHECK req sz: 32768 (decimal) asc:14,3 End-of-data not found st0(ahc0:1:0): BLANK CHECK req sz: 32768 (decimal) asc:14,3 End-of-data not found The upgrade also involved increasing the size of a ccd drive from 18GB (2x9GB drives) to 27GB (3x9GB drives). The relevant dmesg output for the tape drive is: ahc0 waiting for scsi devices to settle (ahc0:1:0): "HP C1533A HP00" type 1 removable SCSI 2 st0(ahc0:1:0): Sequential-Access density code 0x24, variable blocks, write-enabled (ahc0:2:0): "IBM OEM DCHS04Z 2626" type 0 fixed SCSI 2 sd4(ahc0:2:0): Direct-Access 4340MB (8888543 512 byte sectors) (ahc0:3:0): "IBM OEM DFHSS4F 4141" type 0 fixed SCSI 2 sd5(ahc0:3:0): Direct-Access 4303MB (8813870 512 byte sectors) (ahc0:4:0): "IBM DCAS-34330 S61A" type 0 fixed SCSI 2 sd6(ahc0:4:0): Direct-Access 4134MB (8467200 512 byte sectors) (ahc0:5:0): "IBM DCAS-34330 S61A" type 0 fixed SCSI 2 sd7(ahc0:5:0): Direct-Access 4134MB (8467200 512 byte sectors) (ahc0:6:0): "SEAGATE ST34572N 0784" type 0 fixed SCSI 2 sd8(ahc0:6:0): Direct-Access 4340MB (8888924 512 byte sectors) ahc1 rev 0 int a irq 12 on pci0:11 ahc1: aic7870 Single Channel, SCSI Id=7, 16 SCBs ahc1 waiting for scsi devices to settle (ahc1:0:0): "SEAGATE ST32550N 0016" type 0 fixed SCSI 2 sd0(ahc1:0:0): Direct-Access 2047MB (4194058 512 byte sectors) (ahc1:1:0): "SEAGATE ST34371N 0484" type 0 fixed SCSI 2 sd1(ahc1:1:0): Direct-Access 4148MB (8496884 512 byte sectors) (ahc1:2:0): "SEAGATE ST410800N 0021" type 0 fixed SCSI 2 sd2(ahc1:2:0): Direct-Access 8669MB (17755614 512 byte sectors) (ahc1:3:0): "SEAGATE ST410800N 0025" type 0 fixed SCSI 2 sd3(ahc1:3:0): Direct-Access 8669MB (17755614 512 byte sectors) (ahc1:4:0): "SEAGATE ST19171N 0023" type 0 fixed SCSI 2 sd9(ahc1:4:0): Direct-Access 8683MB (17783112 512 byte sectors) mt status returns the following: Present Mode: Density = 0x24 Blocksize variable ---------available modes--------- Mode 0: Density = 0x00 Blocksize variable Mode 1: Density = X3.136-1986 Blocksize = 512 bytes Mode 2: Density = X3.39-1986 Blocksize variable Mode 3: Density = X3.54-1986 Blocksize variable any ideas what would cause this type of error? cheers, Carey Nairn