From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 12 02:34:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA22397 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 12 Jun 1998 02:34:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA22333 for ; Fri, 12 Jun 1998 02:33:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id CAA18150; Fri, 12 Jun 1998 02:33:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 02:33:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: "Dave C." cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: scsi tape problems..aha0 In-Reply-To: <357DEC0B.CA9289CF@interaccess.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 9 Jun 1998, Dave C. wrote: > hello, > > I know that this is not totally in all ways freeBSD's doing but as I am > new to most of the UNIX world I would like to > see if you have any more expertise than I in this matter. I have an > adaptec 1542cf SCSI adapter that I installed and configured today. The > only thing on the adapter is an older mountain 4mm DAT(identified as > WANG DAT). > I configured the kernel with aha0 and port 0x234 and the rest left > default as it was in the kernel. Upon config, make , install and reboot > the SCSI adapter seems to get initilised fine .. Dmesg prints this > message: > > aha0 at 0x234-0x237 irq 11 drq 7 on isa > aha0 waiting for scsi devices to settle > > and the tape drive gets started with the following message which also > seems normal: > > (aha0:6:0): "WangDAT Model 3100 02.2" type 1 removable SCSI 2 > st0(aha0:6:0): Sequential-Access density code 0x13, drive empty > > well the drive isn't empty though. but other than that no errors occur > untill I try to do anything with the > drive. I try any command ..mt tar newfs..etc. and the device times out > giving me the following message: > > st0(aha0:6:0): timed out > st0(aha0:6:0): timed out AGAIN Check termination. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message