From owner-freebsd-scsi Wed Nov 15 17:35:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from gw.nectar.com (gw.nectar.com [208.42.49.153]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB86337B4FE for ; Wed, 15 Nov 2000 17:35:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from hamlet.nectar.com (hamlet.nectar.com [10.0.1.102]) by gw.nectar.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91F12193E0; Wed, 15 Nov 2000 19:35:41 -0600 (CST) Received: (from nectar@localhost) by hamlet.nectar.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) id eAG1Zfc13881; Wed, 15 Nov 2000 19:35:41 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from nectar@spawn.nectar.com) Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 19:35:41 -0600 From: "Jacques A. Vidrine" To: Matthew Jacob Cc: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [ TAPE TIMEOUT] Re: afio & SCB 0xc - timed out while idle Message-ID: <20001115193541.A13852@hamlet.nectar.com> Mail-Followup-To: "Jacques A. Vidrine" , Matthew Jacob , freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20001115183155.A11050@hamlet.nectar.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from mjacob@feral.com on Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 05:15:20PM -0800 X-Url: http://www.nectar.com/ Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 05:15:20PM -0800, Matthew Jacob wrote: > Hmm. Save me some time/grief and check whether your tape drive is happy under > freebsd. It's worked well with dump/restore for the past 13 months. It is just this odd behavior with afio -Z (software compression). > Take the program below, compile it, put a scratch tape in the drive, > execute 'mt -f /dev/nrsa0 status' (and send us the output) and then execute: > > pat_test v -b 64k -r 1000 -n 10 -f /dev/nrsa0 # ./pat_test -v -b 64k -r 10 -n 10 -f /dev/nsa0 .......Rewind Tape ........Write Pass EOT at File 9 Record 1000 Offset 65536 (655360000 total bytes written) Elapsed Seconds: 501; Data Rate: 1.2475MB/s .......Rewind Tape .........Read Pass EOT at File 10 Record 0 Offset 0 (655360000 total bytes read) Elapsed Seconds: 190: Data Rate: 862316MB/s # mt status Mode Density Blocksize bpi Compression Current: 0x80 variable 0 0x3 ---------available modes--------- 0: 0x80 variable 0 0x3 1: 0x80 variable 0 0x3 2: 0x80 variable 0 0x3 3: 0x80 variable 0 0x3 --------------------------------- Current Driver State: at rest. --------------------------------- File Number: 11 Record Number: 1 Cheers, -- Jacques Vidrine / n@nectar.com / jvidrine@verio.net / nectar@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message