From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 29 18:49:39 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from underfoot.windborne.net (blackfoot.windborne.net [65.174.117.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0ADDE37B403 for ; Wed, 29 May 2002 18:49:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jane.inside (jane.inside [192.168.11.20]) by underfoot.windborne.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id F36ED13115; Wed, 29 May 2002 21:49:29 -0400 (EDT) Subject: ast timeout problems From: Branson Matheson To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Evolution/1.0.1 Date: 29 May 2002 22:49:26 -0300 Message-Id: <1022723370.32470.11.camel@jane.inside> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I did some research in the archives.. and the kernel source.. and didn't find any good answers to this problem. When using amanda or mt(1) command and file-skip-forward'ing (FSF), the tape drive timeouts consistantly. this becomes a problem with large saves to the drive. Has anyone solved this problem? I *need* to have the ability to to saves and would hate to have to replace this box with linux just to use the tapedrive. ast0: TAPE at ata1-slave using PIO4 here is an example of the error: Feb 3 17:04:33 bigfoot /kernel: ast0: TEST_UNIT_READY command timeout - resetting Feb 3 17:04:33 bigfoot /kernel: ata1: resetting devices .. ata1-slave: timeout waiting for command=ef s=11 e=04 root@bigfoot # uname -a FreeBSD bigfoot.inside 4.5-RC FreeBSD 4.5-RC #0: Sun Jan 27 14:07:27 EST 2002 branson@bigfoot.inside:/a/i386/src/sys/compile/BIGFOOT i386 Any help would be appreciated. -- - branson ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Branson Matheson " If you are falling off of a mountain, Systems Consultant You may as well try to fly." Windborne, Inc. - Delenn, Minbari Ambassador ( $statements = ) !~ /Company Opinion/; To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message