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From: Steven Ames <steve@news.cioe.com>
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To: steve@news.cioe.com, wilko@yedi.iaf.nl
Subject: Re: SCSI/Tape problem?
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> > I'm encountering a problem that I just can't seem to solve.
> > I have a FreeBSD system that I've been using to backup my
> > network for quite a while. It is using an Adaptec 2940 card
> > and an Exabyte 8205 tape backup. I'm using 'amanda' to do
> > the backups onto 160M tapes. Alrighty...
> > 
> > A while back the system started to lock up during the backup
> > process. Also the command 'mt erase' would never terminate.
>
> You might run into some timeout situation. I have an (admittedly
> somewhat older) 8200 drive and it takes ages to do an erase.
>
> Why not omit the 'mt erase' altogether? The drive will erase your
> tape anyhow when you start writing to it from BOT.

Hrm... I was unclear. The 'mt erase' is obviously only a
symptom. The backup process still causes my machine to lockup...

						-Steve