Date: Fri, 4 Jul 1997 12:30:21 -0400 (EDT) From: Keith Mitchell <kmitch@weenix.guru.org> To: gibbs@plutotech.com (Justin T. Gibbs) Cc: scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Archive Viper and 3940UW (bad Drive?) Message-ID: <199707041630.MAA07734@weenix.guru.org> In-Reply-To: <199707021928.NAA21948@pluto.plutotech.com> from "Justin T. Gibbs" at "Jul 2, 97 02:26:25 pm"
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> Try going through all of the actions that are performed in st_close and > increase the timeout. I've heard of the prevent causing problems which > was why I bumped up the timeout value, but it could also be the writing > of the filemarks that is causing your problems. After doing this, I noticed that some of my tapes worked and some didn't. After "erasing" all of them they all seem to worked (even on an unmodifed kernel). I was under (I guess false) impression that you didn't have to "erase" them. In the amanda cycle, it just rewinds the tapes and overwrites the data on them. I guess this added a little extra to the filemark or something similar that caused it to take to long (and thus timeout) on the device close. -- Keith Mitchell Head Administrator: acm.vt.edu Email: kmitch@weenix.guru.org PGP key available upon request http://weenix.guru.org/~kmitch Address and URL (c) 1997 Keith Mitchell - All Rights Reserved Unauthorized use or duplication prohibited
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