Date: Thu, 8 Jan 1998 13:05:29 -0500 (EST) From: Steven Ames <steve@news.cioe.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: SCSI/Tape problem? Message-ID: <199801081805.NAA11593@news.cioe.com>
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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. This was on a 2.2.5-STABLE machine. 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. Need help badly! -Steve
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