From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Feb 18 19:42:00 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA28055 for hardware-outgoing; Tue, 18 Feb 1997 19:42:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA28048 for ; Tue, 18 Feb 1997 19:41:55 -0800 (PST) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.2/8.7.3) id OAA09307; Wed, 19 Feb 1997 14:11:08 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199702190341.OAA09307@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Motherboard doesn't like tape drive In-Reply-To: from John Fieber at "Feb 18, 97 08:15:34 pm" To: jfieber@indiana.edu (John Fieber) Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 14:11:07 +1030 (CST) Cc: jmb@freefall.freebsd.org, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk John Fieber stands accused of saying: > On Tue, 18 Feb 1997, Jonathan M. Bresler wrote: > > > the problem may be that the tape is straved for data, so it stops > > writing and has to seek before starting to write again. > > Then I would think that dd'ing /dev/zero to the tape would keep > it streaming, but it won't. :( That might happen if it gets its data out to the tape before your system has got back to it with more. 8( > It has also crossed my mind that the tape drive may just be > broken, and it is coincidence that it happened right after (or > during) a motherboard swap. Anybody know typical failure > symptoms for the Archive Viper? I don't get read or write > errors, just no streaming. Don't think so; the only symptoms I've seen have been "dead, does nothing", and "lots of errors". > -john -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[