From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 22 08:03:24 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id IAA11213 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 22 Jun 1995 08:03:24 -0700 Received: from tellab5.lisle.tellabs.com (tellab5.lisle.tellabs.com [138.111.243.28]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id IAA11206 ; Thu, 22 Jun 1995 08:03:21 -0700 Received: from genesis by tellab5.lisle.tellabs.com with smtp (Smail3.1.29.1 #4) id m0sOnXg-000jCFC; Thu, 22 Jun 95 09:47 CDT Message-Id: From: mikebo@tellabs.com (Mike Borowiec) Subject: Re: FBSD 2.xR: AIC7xxx driver vs. st() driver vs. tape drives To: gibbs@freefall.cdrom.com (Justin T. Gibbs) Date: Thu, 22 Jun 1995 09:47:37 -0500 (CDT) Cc: moto@cs.cmu.edu, deischen@iworks.interworks.org, gibbs@freebsd.org, mikebo@tellabs.com, questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199506212212.PAA10122@freefall.cdrom.com> from "Justin T. Gibbs" at Jun 21, 95 03:12:08 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1541 Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Justin wrote: > >>> Another problem I'm having (under 2.0R) since installing the > >>> AHA2742AT card: Whenever I try to access the Exabyte 8200 8mm drive > >>> (even to do a "mt -f /dev/st1 rewind") I get a timeout message on > >>> the root disk drive, the drive select light stays lit and the > >>> entire system hangs. > >>> > >>> ahc0: target 0, lun 0 (sd0) timed out Abort unsupported! ahc0: > >>> target 0, lun 0 (sd0) timed out Abort unsupported! > > > >You're not alone! I'm seeing this, too. This problem seems to be > >related to my problem I posted to hackers@freebsd.org today. Justin > >will kindly examine this problem when he gets a new EXABYTE from an > >RMA department. > > Are you not running 2.0.5R? Aborts are supported in the later revs > of the aic7xxx driver. > Argh! I got the error while attempting to make an 8mm 2.0.5R load tape! I can't write to my Archive Viper QIC150 because of the st0(ahc1:2:0): ILLEGAL REQUEST st0: Cannot set selected mode st0: bad request, must be between 0 and 0 problem, so as a last resort I was trying to use my Exabyte... so you see, I'm in a catch 22 (short of loading from floppy disk!). - Mike -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael Borowiec Network Operations Tellabs Operations, Inc. mikebo@TELLABS.COM 1000 Remington Blvd. MS109 708-378-6007 FAX: 708-378-6714 Bolingbrook, IL, USA 60440 --------------------------------------------------------------------------