From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 28 22:06:56 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94D681065720 for ; Wed, 28 Jan 2009 22:06:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jaime@snowmoon.com) Received: from yx-out-2324.google.com (yx-out-2324.google.com [74.125.44.29]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 001AB8FC1D for ; Wed, 28 Jan 2009 22:06:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jaime@snowmoon.com) Received: by yx-out-2324.google.com with SMTP id 8so2858705yxb.13 for ; Wed, 28 Jan 2009 14:06:55 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.151.11.19 with SMTP id o19mr1576730ybi.154.1233180415334; Wed, 28 Jan 2009 14:06:55 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20090128225115.G25826@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> References: <20090128202349.GD63837@dan.emsphone.com> <20090128225115.G25826@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 17:06:55 -0500 Message-ID: From: Jaime To: Wojciech Puchar Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Dan Nelson , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Quantum tape drive X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 22:06:57 -0000 On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 4:51 PM, Wojciech Puchar wrote: >> When reading from the tape using tar (bsdtar from FreeBSD 6.2 -- and, >> yes, I'm preparing a cvsup as I write this :) ) the tape drive's Alarm >> and Fault LEDs are lit up and then camcontrol devlist no longer shows >> the tape drive. > > TERMINATION PROBLEM I was thinking of that... I shut down the server and checked the usual suspects (terminator on the cable, SCSI IDs, etc.) but didn't find anything out of place. Also, the same command in Knoppix (Linux) using /dev/st0 (the Linux equivalent of /dev/sa0) appeared to write to the tape and then list the items on that tape. I didn't see how long it would take, though. In retrospect, maybe I should have let that run longer. :( How certain are you that its a termination problem? Thanks, Jaime