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Date:      Thu, 2 Aug 2001 12:31:46 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        User KELVIN <kelvin@mail.taipingcarpets.com>
Cc:        questions@freeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Tape Backup Problem
Message-ID:  <20010802123145.A4652@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0108011953220.17891-100000@dm.taipingcarpets.com>; from kelvin@mail.taipingcarpets.com on Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 08:07:27PM %2B0800
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0108011953220.17891-100000@dm.taipingcarpets.com>

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On Wednesday,  1 August 2001 at 20:07:27 +0800, User KELVIN wrote:
> Dear Sir / Miss
>
> I use Dell PowerEdge2500 server with tape backup drive. When I use
> following command to copy the data to tape.
>
> tar cvf /dev/nrsa0 /user/ports/myports.
>
> there is the following error message on server screen.
>
> (sa0:ahc1:0:6:0):Write(06). CDB a 1 0 0 a 0
> (sa0:ahc1:0:6:0):aborted command asc:47,0
> (sa0:ahc1:0:6:0):SCSI parity error.
>
> So that the backup is unsucessful.I can find out my boot log message there
> is "sa0 at achc1 bus target 6 lun0"
>    "sa0 <ACHIVE PHYTHON 06408-XXX 8130> Removable sequential access SCSI-3
> device"
>
> Please kindly show me how can I make backup work successful with tape
> drive. Thank you very much.

This looks like a hardware problem, probably termination.  It's also
possible that your tape unit isn't generating parity, but your host
adaptor is checking for it.  It may be possible to disable parity on
your host adaptor, but I don't know if that's a good idea.

Greg
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