From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 23 8:44:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lv.raad.tartu.ee (lv.raad.tartu.ee [194.126.106.110]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E236637B416 for ; Fri, 23 Nov 2001 08:44:32 -0800 (PST) Received: Message by Barricade lv.raad.tartu.ee with ESMTP id fANGiND18712; Fri, 23 Nov 2001 18:44:23 +0200 Message-Id: <200111231644.fANGiND18712@lv.raad.tartu.ee> Received: from SpoolDir by INFO (Mercury 1.48); 23 Nov 01 18:43:52 +0200 From: "Toomas Aas" Organization: Tartu City Government To: "Jonathan Defries" , questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2001 18:43:48 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Problems with DAT drive In-reply-to: X-info: Headers changed by Barricade Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi Jonathan! On 23 Nov 01 at 16:19 you wrote: > I'm having problems getting a DAT drive to work on my server. > > Errors are: > > (sa0:ahc0:0:4:0): WRITE(06). CDB: a 0 0 28 0 0 > (sa0:ahc0:0:4:0): MEDIUM ERROR info:19000 asc:c,0 > (sa0:ahc0:0:4:0): Write error > Any help would be much appreciated. I've tried cleaning the drive, a new DAT > tape, but no joy. Is this a new drive? MEDIUM ERROR seems to indicate that there are problems in the physical process of writing data to tape. If using another tape did not help then maybe the drive is just dying of old age. Lasting a long time is not one of the strong sides of DAT drives. Another thing to check out is the SCSI chain. Is it properly terminated, are all the connectors firmly seated etc. -- Toomas Aas | toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee | http://www.raad.tartu.ee/~toomas/ * I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message