From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 26 7: 3:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from clientmail.realtime.co.uk (simian.realtime.co.uk [213.52.146.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EAD837B403 for ; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 07:03:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cyclops.ehsrealtime.com ([213.52.146.194]) by clientmail.realtime.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 15wmzS-0003eX-01 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 25 Oct 2001 17:04:18 +0100 Received: from byrons (helo=localhost) by cyclops.ehsrealtime.com with local-esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 15wmy9-000NnZ-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 25 Oct 2001 17:02:57 +0100 Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 17:02:57 +0100 (BST) From: Byron Schlemmer X-X-Sender: To: Subject: SCSI Tape Issues Message-ID: <20011025164257.T91393-100000@cyclops.ehsrealtime.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi All, I was wondering if someone can shed some light on the following problem I'm having with my HP SCSI DAT 40x6e. The problem is this : Almost seemingly randomly I get the following error in /var/log/messages when writing to the tape device : Oct 25 16:28:26 hercules /kernel: (sa0:ahc2:0:5:0): camisr(sa0:ahc2:0:5:0): tape is now fr ozen- use an OFFLINE, REWIND or MTEOM command to clear this state. At the above point all writing stops. As a 'mt status' shows I'm not using compression and I've set the device to use variable block sizes. # mt status Mode Density Blocksize bpi Compression Current: 0x26:DDS-4 variable 97000 disabled ---------available modes--------- 0: 0x26:DDS-4 variable 97000 DCLZ 1: 0x26:DDS-4 variable 97000 DCLZ 2: 0x26:DDS-4 variable 97000 DCLZ 3: 0x26:DDS-4 variable 97000 DCLZ --------------------------------- Current Driver State: at rest. --------------------------------- File Number: 8 Record Number: 0 Residual Count -32768 There are also two SCSI controllers in the machine. One onboard the motherboard and a PCI controller. Both are Adaptecs. The external backup device is connected to the PCI controller and is the only device on it. Any ideas? This is driving me mad ... Thanks, -byron To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message