Date: Thu, 8 Jan 1998 22:38:46 +0100 (MET) From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> To: steve@news.cioe.com (Steven Ames) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SCSI/Tape problem? Message-ID: <199801082138.WAA03382@yedi.iaf.nl> In-Reply-To: <199801081805.NAA11593@news.cioe.com> from "Steven Ames" at Jan 8, 98 01:05:29 pm
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As Steven Ames wrote... > I'm encountering a problem that I just can't seem to solve. > I have a FreeBSD system that I've been using to backup my > network for quite a while. It is using an Adaptec 2940 card > and an Exabyte 8205 tape backup. I'm using 'amanda' to do > the backups onto 160M tapes. Alrighty... > > A while back the system started to lock up during the backup > process. Also the command 'mt erase' would never terminate. You might run into some timeout situation. I have an (admittedly somewhat older) 8200 drive and it takes ages to do an erase. > I tried a different controller (still an Adaptec 2940). Same > results. Different cable, no change. Different tape drive > (Exabyte 8700XL), same results. > > Today I built a 2.1.7-RELEASE machine and tried it there. > Similar results. The 'mt erase' command generates a lot of > errors and eventually causes a reboot. > > I need a solution ASAP as I'm not getting backups until > things work. I've also tried this on a 3.0-CURRENT (1/7/98) > machine... same results as the 2.2.5 platform. Why not omit the 'mt erase' altogether? The drive will erase your tape anyhow when you start writing to it from BOT. Wilko _ ______________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Bulte email: wilko @ yedi.iaf.nl http://www.tcja.nl/~wilko |/|/ / / /( (_) Arnhem, The Netherlands - Do, or do not. There is no 'try' --------------- Support your local daemons: run [Free,Net,Open]BSD Unix --
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