From owner-freebsd-scsi Mon Apr 1 13:46:23 1996 Return-Path: owner-freebsd-scsi Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA04495 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Mon, 1 Apr 1996 13:46:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from watson.grauel.com (watson.grauel.com [199.233.104.36]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA04486 Mon, 1 Apr 1996 13:46:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from sparcmill.grauel.com (sparcmill.grauel.com [199.233.104.34]) by watson.grauel.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA00240; Mon, 1 Apr 1996 16:55:23 -0500 (EST) Received: by sparcmill.grauel.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id QAA05705; Mon, 1 Apr 1996 16:46:18 -0500 Date: Mon, 1 Apr 1996 16:46:18 -0500 Message-Id: <199604012146.QAA05705@sparcmill.grauel.com> From: Richard J Kuhns To: "Jonathan M. Bresler" Cc: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Archive Anaconda Tape drive 1.35GB && Adaptec 1542CF In-Reply-To: <199603290128.RAA25534@freefall.freebsd.org> References: <199603282102.QAA14902@sparcmill.grauel.com> <199603290128.RAA25534@freefall.freebsd.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jonathan M. Bresler writes: > Richard J Kuhns wrote: > > > > Well, based on Jonathan Bresler's report on the Anaconda at the beginning > > of this month, I decided to try one. > > guess that i should respond here ;) Much appreciated. > > do you have "SCSI_DELAY=15" in your kernel? > Actually, I changed it to 10, but it's my understanding that SCSI_DELAY only affects the boot process. > > Any brilliant suggestions? Fair warning, tho: if I get this tape drive > > working under the 1542, I'm liable to try it with a Buslogic 946 C next > > :-). > > arghhhhhhh..... > Now, now, take a deep breath ;-). > > (aha0:6:0): "ARCHIVE ANCDA 2750 28077 -003" type 1 removable SCSI 2 > > same string as mine. this is good! > > regarding the timeouts, this is a problme for my ncr card during > rewind, not while reading or writing the tape. > > i just tested the drive with a scsi drive on the same controller > no problems here. nearly all of my testing and use has been > with the drives on one ncr810 and the tape on the other ncr810 > (the tape shares a scsi chain wiht the cdrom and the /usr/obj > /usr/src partitions that i can recreate from cvs so i dont > back them up general) > Good news! I just applied the most recent patches (ctm, 0064), rebuilt the kernel, and tried again -- it seems to work just fine. I just dumped a total of about 400MB on 3 filesystems, with nary a hiccup. restore claims everything looks ok, too. Justin, you do good work; many thanks. -- Rich Kuhns rjk@grauel.com PO Box 6249 100 Sawmill Road Lafayette, IN 47903 (317)477-6000 x319