From owner-freebsd-bugs Mon Jul 19 13:54:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from blaubaer.kn-bremen.de (blaubaer.kn-bremen.de [134.102.38.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2454915146 for ; Mon, 19 Jul 1999 13:54:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nox@saturn.kn-bremen.de) Received: from saturn.kn-bremen.de (uucp@localhost) by blaubaer.kn-bremen.de (8.9.1/8.9.1) with UUCP id WAA07302; Mon, 19 Jul 1999 22:50:20 +0200 Received: (from nox@localhost) by saturn.kn-bremen.de (8.9.3/8.8.5) id WAA09877; Mon, 19 Jul 1999 22:05:11 +0200 (MET DST) From: Juergen Lock Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 22:05:11 +0200 To: Matthew Jacob Cc: Juergen Lock , freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kern/11945: tape problems on -stable, mt bl(ocksize), mt erase and hanging SCSI bus Message-ID: <19990719220510.B8024@saturn.kn-bremen.de> References: <19990717040530.A35804@saturn.kn-bremen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: ; from Matthew Jacob on Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 12:26:32AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 12:26:32AM -0700, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > What did you do prior to running the erase? Nothing if i remember right, just loaded the tape. (and waited until the tape drive did its new-tape checks.) > It's possible that another > tape command didn't free a ccb. Well if i remember right this was the first tape command after reboot... > It's also possible that this is just > taking a "forever" time because the tape unit died doing the erase- the > timeout is 4 hours. Hmm. this never happened to me before, also the tape didn't move at all and the LED was still off, as if no command got sent at all... (both at the erase and retension hangs.) Regards, -- Juergen Lock (remove dot foo from address to reply) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message