From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 29 19:28: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from zeus.tassie.net.au (zeus.tassie.net.au [203.57.213.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F56C37B401 for ; Wed, 29 Aug 2001 19:28:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from John.Dalton@tassie.net.au) Received: from casper (casper.hbt.off.tassie.net.au [203.57.212.2]) by zeus.tassie.net.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA20201 for ; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 12:27:34 +1000 (EST) From: "John Dalton" To: Subject: Problem with an HP Surestore 24x6i under FreeBSD Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 12:30:54 +1000 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 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 Hi, I'm having a problem with an HP Surestore 24x6i DDS3 tape changer on a FreeBSD 4.0 box. I can talk to the changer ok, but the tape drive is giving me trouble. I can get the status from the drive, advance, erase, rewind a tape and so on using mt, but attempts to read or write to a tape using tar or dd give me errors like this: #tar cf - build | dd of=/dev/rsa0 bs=1024 dd: /dev/rsa0: Input/output error 2+0 records in 1+0 records out 1024 bytes transferred in 0.016840 secs (60808 bytes/sec) ..with the following errors appearing in the kernel message log and on the console: (sa0:ahc0:0:4:0): WRITE(06). CDB: a 0 0 2 0 0 (sa0:ahc0:0:4:0): ABORTED COMMAND asc:4b,0 (sa0:ahc0:0:4:0): Data phase error I've tried it with different block sizes, I've checked the dip switches, I've cleaned the drive, I've tried new tapes.. I've tried everything I could think of. The tape drive appears to work fine on an NT system. I can't find any mention of this problem in mailing lists or search engines. I'm about to start bashing my head against a wall :( Possibly pertinent info: uname -a: FreeBSD heracles.hbt.off.tassie.net.au 4.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE #0: Fri Aug 10 10:15:53 EST 2001 root@username-gw.hbt:/usr/src/sys/compile/CHANGER i386 Device detection: sa0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 4 lun 0 sa0: Removable Sequential Access SCSI-2 device sa0: 10.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 15) Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a ch0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 4 lun 1 ch0: Removable Changer SCSI-2 device ch0: 10.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 15) ch0: 6 slots, 1 drive, 0 pickers, 0 portals Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Yours, John Dalton. P.S. I've been using FreeBSD for over 4 years now, yet somehow this is the first time I've posted to freebsd-questions.. Is this a ringing endorsement for the quality of the docs in general? :) ------------------------------------------------------------------ John.Dalton@tassie.net.au Tas Access Systems Administrator Phone: 1300 655 633 Accounts: accounts@tassie.net.au Support: support@tassie.net.au To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message