From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jun 6 18:36:26 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA04391 for current-outgoing; Thu, 6 Jun 1996 18:36:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA04379; Thu, 6 Jun 1996 18:36:24 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199606070136.SAA04379@freefall.freebsd.org> To: Matthew Jason White cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: SCSI Tape driver broken? In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 06 Jun 1996 21:14:22 EDT." Date: Thu, 06 Jun 1996 18:36:24 -0700 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >About a month ago, I upgraded my system to -current so I could do some >work on ccd. The new kernel had some trouble with hanging on the probe >of my SCSI tape drive (Exabyte 8200). I recently rebuilt the kernel >with a June 6th sup of the CVS tree and this probe seems to have >completely broken. I'm currently rebuilding my kernel with FAILSAFE >defined, I'll let anyone interested know how that works out (email me). > >I guess I should note that this tape drive works perfectly under all my >2.1 kernels. In the old -current kernel, once I get past the probe the >tape drive functions as expected (I've done gigabyte+ dump/restores with >no problems). > > >-Matt What controller are you using? -- Justin T. Gibbs =========================================== FreeBSD: Turning PCs into workstations ===========================================