From owner-freebsd-scsi Tue Feb 29 17:36:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5500737BD06 for ; Tue, 29 Feb 2000 17:36:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from beppo.feral.com (beppo [192.67.166.79]) by feral.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA21640; Tue, 29 Feb 2000 17:36:03 -0800 Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 17:36:03 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: scottm@cs.ucla.edu Cc: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sony SDT-5000 tape drive (again) In-Reply-To: <38BC5B4B.108DEB35@aero.org> 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 On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, Scott Michel wrote: > Perhaps it's just the way I ask questions or possibly I'm not > supplying the correct information. > > I recently purchased a SDT-5000 and attempted to use it with > FreeBSD 3.4. For some reason or another, when using flexbackup, > the SCSI tape driver appears to lose its concept of sesssion, > and the messages about the tape being frozen appear. This means that the tape driver has lost a notion of where it is. > > What would be useful information to help diagnose this problem, > in addition to my kernel config, the output from 'boot -v' when > using the tape? How should I go about diagnosing the problem, > given I'm not a SCSI guru? How about sending me the /var/log/messages from the freeze session? > > Suggestions gratefully accepted, even if they include "Go jump > off a tall building." Hmm. Not without a parasail.... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message