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From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>
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Subject: Re: SCSI/Tape problem?
To: steve@news.cioe.com (Steven Ames)
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 1998 08:16:59 +0100 (MET)
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In-Reply-To: <199801090157.UAA00259@news.cioe.com> from "Steven Ames" at Jan 8, 98 08:57:03 pm
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As Steven Ames wrote...
> 
> > > 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...

OK, that is obviously wrong. My 2.2.5R box performs dumps just fine on the
8200, as said without doing an mt erase. I do not use Amanda though

The drive is hooked up to a NCR810 in my case.

Wilko
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