From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 27 13:38:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA18842 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 27 Mar 1998 13:38:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.hcol.net (root@ns.hcol.net [205.152.99.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA18745 for ; Fri, 27 Mar 1998 13:38:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from val@hcol.net) Received: from ns.hcol.net (val@smtp.hcol.net [205.152.99.19]) by ns.hcol.net (8.8.6/8.8.6) with SMTP id PAA29592 for ; Fri, 27 Mar 1998 15:38:27 -0600 (CST) Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 15:38:27 -0600 (CST) From: Val To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HP Colorado T4000 Tape and tape backup in general In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > I had a tape backup sitting next to the computer for a while now. > > > It is detected on the scsi bus on the startup. > > > I wasn't using it much because the tar command would take forever to > > > backup about 2Gb of data, and after about 6-7hours would give some error > > > message. > > > > Which error message? st0(ncr0:4:0): ILLEGAL REQUEST asc:20,0 Invalid command operation code This message appears on the start of the backup and then on the start of the verify part. The tape itself is spinning, but it's not 100% busy, in other words the busy light on the tape does not stay on all the time, but blinks. The tar appears to accomplish the job, but it sure takes a lot of time to do it :( ncr is the scsi controller that we use. What does asc:20,0 mean? TIA. Val. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message