From owner-freebsd-scsi Tue Mar 16 15:10:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8BF614C9F for ; Tue, 16 Mar 1999 15:10:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from localhost (mjacob@localhost) by feral.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA14964; Tue, 16 Mar 1999 15:10:08 -0800 Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 15:10:08 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob X-Sender: mjacob@feral-gw Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: martin.kraft@fal.de Cc: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: i/o error with larger QIC In-Reply-To: <199903162302.BAA13911@hpcs14.dv.fal.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > I know, the problem with some SCSI tape drives was already > reported and discussed during the last days. Maybe the following > information can help to address the problem better. If not, please > do not spend time on responding. I will follow this list and wait > for the solution. > > My personal situation is, that after upgrading from FreeBSD 2.2.7 to 3.1 > on sunday, I am not able to restore from part of my QIC tapes. > > The drive is a: > > sa0 at bt0 bus 0 target 4 lun 0 > sa0: Removable Sequential Access SCSI-CCS device > sa0: 4.32MB/s transfers (4.32MHz, offset 14) > > I can read DC 6150 tapes (written under 2.2.7) without problems. But it > is impossible to read from a DC 6525: > > su-2.02# tar -t > tar: read error on /dev/rsa0 : Input/output error > su-2.02# mt status > Mode Density Blocksize bpi Compression > Current: QIC-320 512 bytes 16000 unsupported > ---------available modes--------- > 0: QIC-320 512 bytes 16000 unsupported > 1: QIC-320 512 bytes 16000 unsupported > 2: QIC-320 512 bytes 16000 unsupported > 3: QIC-320 512 bytes 16000 unsupported > --------------------------------- > Current Driver State: at rest. > --------------------------------- > File Number: 0 Record Number: 0 > su-2.02# > If you set to 1KB blocksize, can you read those tapes? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message