From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 31 06:10:12 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id GAA04799 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 31 Aug 1995 06:10:12 -0700 Received: from vhf.dataradio.com (G496.InterLink.NET [198.168.61.62]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id GAA04789 for ; Thu, 31 Aug 1995 06:10:08 -0700 Received: from dri.UUCP (udri@localhost) by vhf.dataradio.com (8.6.9/8.6.12) with UUCP id JAA10485 for freebsd-questions@freefall.FreeBSD.org; Thu, 31 Aug 1995 09:06:15 -0400 Message-Id: <199508311306.JAA10485@vhf.dataradio.com> Received: by dri (UUXFER v1.4); Thu 31 Aug 1995 09:06:08 EDT From: "Andrew Webster" Organization: Dataradio Inc. To: bmk@dtr.com Date: Thu, 31 Aug 1995 09:05:47 -0500 Subject: Re: Archive SC-402 Tape Controller Help CC: freebsd-questions@freefall.FreeBSD.org X-Confirm-Reading-To: "Andrew Webster" X-pmrqc: 1 Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail v3.22 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > From: bmk@dtr.com > Subject: Re: Archive SC-402 Tape Controller Help > Date sent: Thu, 31 Aug 1995 04:58:43 -0700 (PDT) > > I have one. What seems to be the trouble? A question then from another user with difficulties: I have an SC-402 with an Archive 2150L drive connected to it, and my problem is that I can't get the drive to stream. It does much "shoe shinning" and is it takes a long time to get anything off of it. I'm running FreeBSD 2.0.5-R on a 486/33 with 16MB of ram. If I turn off turbo mode on the machine, the forward motion of the tape gets even smaller. I've tried using all sorts of block sizes to try and get it to stream, but no luck! Are there any tunable parameters for this drive, or is my motherboard's DMA system kinda broken? Thanks! ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew Webster Network Manager / Special Projects Dataradio Inc. 200-5500 Royalmount Ave. TEL: +1 514 737 0020 Town of Mount Royal, QC, CANADA H4P 1H7 FAX: +1 514 737 7883 http://www.dataradio.com Email: awebster@dataradio.com