Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 14:07:49 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph Kukulies) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org, freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: aic0 (/dev/rst0) problem Message-ID: <199611182107.OAA07633@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199611181334.OAA20811@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> from "Christoph Kukulies" at Nov 18, 96 02:34:12 pm
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> # tar cvf /dev/rst0 / > ^C^Cst0: not ready (after a while) > > Is there anything special to that HP DAT drive? Blocksize which the driver > cannot cope with? Compression on/off? I believe the driver is working in > polled modes, at least not DMA driven. The board doesn't have busmaster > DMA logic and the motherboard DMA doesn't seem (yet) implemented in the > driver. Unless you set a dipswitch, it won't work with "audio DAT Tapes"; HP is the first drive that whines about them. 8-(. I also believe the default block size is 0 for autorecognition; there was a big discussion on this about 8 months ago. Look at the "mt" command man page for setting the block size. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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