From owner-freebsd-scsi Thu Jan 8 10:05:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA08680 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Thu, 8 Jan 1998 10:05:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-scsi) Received: from news.cioe.com (news.cioe.com [204.248.219.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA08655; Thu, 8 Jan 1998 10:05:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from steve@news.cioe.com) Received: (from root@localhost) by news.cioe.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) id NAA11593; Thu, 8 Jan 1998 13:05:29 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 8 Jan 1998 13:05:29 -0500 (EST) From: Steven Ames Message-Id: <199801081805.NAA11593@news.cioe.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: SCSI/Tape problem? Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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