From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jul 18 10:59:30 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id KAA02583 for current-outgoing; Tue, 18 Jul 1995 10:59:30 -0700 Received: from gndrsh.aac.dev.com (gndrsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id KAA02577 ; Tue, 18 Jul 1995 10:59:26 -0700 Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by gndrsh.aac.dev.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id KAA04933; Tue, 18 Jul 1995 10:59:51 -0700 From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199507181759.KAA04933@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: scsi problem solved To: paul@FreeBSD.org Date: Tue, 18 Jul 1995 10:59:51 -0700 (PDT) Cc: FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199507181651.RAA00375@server.netcraft.co.uk> from "Paul Richards" at Jul 18, 95 05:51:15 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1137 Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Well, the scsi tape problem's fixed. > > It did turn out to be that the tape wouldn't handle sync. Thanks for the > pointer Rod, maybe it should go in a FAQ somewhere. > > The reason it suddenly broke was someone borrowed the DAT and it came > back on a different scsi id and sync was enabled for that id and not > what I originally had it on. Humm, this really suprizes me as the usually symptom of a device that does not understand sync when probed by the 1542 bios is a scsi bus lockup during POST in the 1542 bios. You rarely get to where you can boot the system, and I have never seen it actually transfer data when this is the cause of the problem. Really really strange, I am going to have to remeber this one!! Can you enlightenme with some details about which model of the 1542 you have (B/C/CF) and just what model dat drive this is (dmesg output would probably do for both since I think we now print the 1542 board id info, but maybe that is only for boot -v. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Reliable computers for FreeBSD